I didn't really need to read much past the title or subtitle, but it's still an excellent essay that does a good job of drawing comparisons to concepts we already understand, for example:
The term deepfake traditionally refers to photos, audio, and video, but when it comes to discussions of consciousness, we need to regard text as a deepfake medium as well.
This does remind me of the story of ELIZA and Joseph Weizenbaum, which people quickly attributed intelligence to the bot. With 6 months of ELIZA's debut (in 1966), he warned loudly and publicly about the perils of anthropomorphism. He continued this campaign until his death in 2008. Yet, here we are again.