What about the burden of proof that you are conscious? After all, you’re just a bunch of neurons firing signals, and 100% of your behavior is readily explained as an automaton in a meat machine.
You have to prove your understanding of consciousness to be certain that LLMs are not conscious. It’s your certainty that I suspect most are reacting to here.
To have a sufficiently well-founded opinion to call people who disagree with you "simpletons," I'd argue that you indeed should have a defensible idea of what's conscious and what's not. Of course nothing is stopping anyone from being an asshole on the Internet so no, you don't "need" to do anything at all.
I swear people defending this idea would argue a plane and a bird are the same thing because "hey look, they both fly and have wings"