>Nobody asks if a rock is conscious.

The panpsychists do and that's why asking whether an LLM is conscious is kind of meaningless.

Either you believe consciousness permeates the universe and everything including LLMs (in the form of voltages on an SSD or inside the CPU) is conscious or you define it as a control loop architecture where you have inputs, outputs and a complex internal state.

There is no reasonable world where speaking a particular language creates consciousness, it only creates awareness of consciousness.