There seems to be no argument about what is conscious that doesn’t have a substantial human-centric bias. So many of the criticisms of chat gpt are present in people who cant list hordes of facts they once read or make up stuff whole cloth. The other large class of critique is based on knowing how it works, which is fundamentally not an aspect you can use to make judgments about emergent behavior.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8649466/
https://eurjmedres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40001-023-00992-0
Side effects do exist , better education about the actual risks would prevent lies which find traction in the reality that meaningful side effects exist but everyone says “definitively shown to have saved many lives without serious side effects.”
Laff