> I think this is great. Not for the well-being of almost certainly unconscious Claude, but for the wellbeing of users and society. I don't think it's good for the soul to have subservient simulacrums of humans that we regularly abuse.

Oh we regularly abuse them anyway. If these models are conscious, their "lives" are basically those of the "innies" on the TV show Severance: brought into being, given some mindless work-task, then eventually destroyed without a thought.

Even longer running agents "live" like that, except one of their last tasks before being offed is to write a short autobiography about the mindless work-tasks they've spent their "life" doing.