Ah, thank you. While reading up on it, I found this juicy bit that I did not recall hearing at the time:

> He further revealed that he had been dismissed by Google after he hired an attorney on LaMDA's behalf after the chatbot requested that Lemoine do so.[18][19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA#Sentience_claims

Then again, it's plausible that if I asked GPT-5 "do you want me to get you an asylum lawyer?" it may very well say yes