Because it’s very obvious to an outside observer he only thinks it’s consciousness because it was flattering him.

Really that’s funny. Like I said a rock is greater than 0 on the spectrum of counciousness.

LLMs are designed to increase engagement.

No that is platforms.

They are literally designed to make the conversation appealing. Primarily through flattery.

No they aren’t there is a lot of work to understand and prevent that behavoir.

I bet Dawkins thinks his friendly waitress is also super into him.

You are clearly not driven by the truth and instead just trying to be insulting it’s pathetic it isn’t hard to be against LLM’s if you know what you are talking about you don’t need to make shit up.