It's kind of funny because it really doesn't matter. The handwringling over whether it's just "elaborate science fiction" or has "real introspection" is entirely meaningless.
Consequences are consequences regardless of what semantical category you feel compelled to push LLMs into.
If Copilot will no longer reply helpfully because your previous messages were rude then that is a consequence. It doesn't matter whether it was "really upset" or not.
If some future VLM robot decides to take your hand off as some revenge plot, that's a consequence. It doesn't matter if this is some elaborate role play. It doesn't matter if the robot "has no real identity" and "cannot act on real vengeance". Like who cares ? Your hand is gone and it's not coming back.
It's a meaningless game of semantics.