There have been many reports of CLI AI tools getting frustrated, giving up, and just deleting the whole codebase in anger.
The same argument could be made about people, animals, etc...
Computers don't have any of that. And LLM's in particular neither. They were trained to simulate human text responses, that's all. How to get from there to emotions - where is the connection?
Porn is pornographic, whether it is a photo or an oil painting.
Feelings are feelings, whether they're felt by a squishy meat brain or a perfect atom-by-atom simulation of one in a computer. Or a less-than-perfect simulation of one. Or just a vaguely similar system that is largely indistinguishable from it, as observed from the outside.
Individual nerve cells don't have emotions! Ten wired together don't either. Or one hundred, or a thousand... by extension you don't have any feelings either.
See also: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...