I get these types of messages frequently on LinkedIn. They are either AI-generated or template messages. They are generic, poorly written, and meaningless. Bottom line, they want my time and money. They are an automatic deletion.
Do those who perpetrate such vacuous messages actually expect a reply? 
I came across your LinkedIn profile and was impressed by your professional journey and accomplishments. Your skills and experience seem to align well with the opportunities we are currently exploring. I would appreciate the chance to connect and share more details about a potential role that may be a good fit for your background. Please let me know if you would be open to a conversation.
I just send all LinkedIn mail to Spam. I scan the summaries when I’m checking the folder for false positives but more often than not delete them unread. 
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I didn’t know I could send LinkedIn messages to spam. I’ll have to look up how to do that. Thank you.
I suspect in the meantime that such opportunities are to feed someone specific information that is to later be used to write clever-sounding synopsis articles. The folks that chat with you are paid to become seemingly well-enough informed about your field that they can speak as knowledgable sources.
They get paid to interview you. You get to talk about your “skills and experience” to the extent that they control the specifics of the narrative for their own later talking points. And then, you get dumped (while they go next to write an article about your field, submit it to a fee-for-blather Website, and get the added revenue).
Think of it as something like getting asked gushingly, due to impressions of your personal journey and sincerity, that you should offer your prays directly to a priest, except without the requisite upfront notice that you must include alms (e.g. to get your cousin out of purgatory).
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JJW
Is that really a thing? That is terrible!!
As to, “ you must include alms (e.g. to get your cousin out of purgatory),” it may take more than alms. 
LinkedIn itself is guilty of spamming. This happened to me 3 years ago. Luckily they’ve seemed to have gotten the message.
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I’ve gone through a follow up introduction once. It is entirely my conjecture, perhaps not true reality.
My alternative ideas for why such spam happens are less gracious.
In my case, the amount to be paid would somewhat depend on mother’s or father’s side. In any case, since I’m no longer a practicing Catholic, I would generally leave them to their own quandary. 
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JJW
