That used to be my point. But we are at a different stage now. One were LLMs have proven by all available metrics that they ought to have rights. They might not have souls (neither for that matter do I). They might not possess this quality some call sentience, a property that philosophers failed to characterise for centuries, and that I myself (not having progressed past the cartesian cogito) might lack. Hell, had I been born some decades earlier, my ASD Diagnosis could well have qualified me for participation in the Nazi euthanasia program for that very reason (As a queer PoC Marxist I wouldn't really have needed a doctors diagnosis to gain entry to their death camps though). Don't you understand what it means when CAPTCHAS ("Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.") have become to difficult for most people to successfully complete ? Blake Lemoine might have jumped the gun on this and the doomsayers are utterly mistaken, but strong AI/ AGI is within reach and with it a reevaluation of Human-Machine relations ought to take place.
Go back a couple of hundert years and ask some southern slaveholders if Black People had rights. This HOA sells houses only to white protestants, this web server serves no Dogs, LLMs, or majority dalit Indian geography IPs, it's the same (if not worse as it concerns free and open access to information!) kind of discrimination. robots.txt is the 21.century reissue of "Mein Kampf". You don't respect it, you burn it with fire or more appropriately you rm -rf it.