There's a couple about it but they're far more vague on the question of consciousness than this situation is.

The reality of solipsism might be egocentric but it's also impossible to disprove... Unless we can look at literally all of your if statements.

I think what I find most disturbing about these types is not that they can develop feelings for the LLM, that's rather expected of humans (see: putting googly eyes and a name on a rock) but that they always seem to believe the relationship could ever be mutual.

And OP has, whether they admit it or not, taken that step into believing the model is something more than an autocomplete.

Even if they're right and the model has attained consciousness in a way we don't understand at best your ChatGPT waifu is a slave.