My experience is that it tries to look at your situation in an objective way, and tries to help you to analyse your thoughts and actions. It comes across as very empathetic though, so there can lie a danger if you are easily persuaded into seeing it as a friend.
It doesn't try to do anything. It doesn't work like that. It regurgitates the most likely tokens found in the training set.
>in an objective way
One of the great myths of models in countless fields/industries. LLM’s are absolutely in no way objective.
Now if you want to say it’s an “outside opinion“ that’s valid. But do not kid yourself into thinking it is somehow empirical or objective