[Lerc]

I think it is clearly true that it doesn't show that they have consciousness and emotions.

The problem is that people assume that failing to show that they do means that they don't.

It's very hard to show that something doesn't have consciousness. Try and conclusively prove that a rock does not have consciousness.

[virgilp]

The problem with consciousness is kinda' the same as the problem with AGI. Trying to prove that someone/something has or does not have consciousness is largely, as a commenter said, the same as debating whether it has or not plipnikop. I.e. something that is not well defined or understood, that may mean different things to different people.

I think it's even hard to conclusively prove that LLMs don't have any emotions. They can definitely express emotions (typically don't, but largely because they're trained/tuned to avoid the expression of emotions). Now, are those fake? Maybe, most likely even... but not "clearly" (or provably) so.