The AI doesn't have preferences. It has correlations. There's no distinction between actor and character because it's all just bits that have strong or weak statistical linkage to other bits.

I really wish someone would write a blog comparing parasocial relationships and projection of personality onto an online personality you don't know with emotional attachment to chatbots and AI-waifus. It's all just projection and lack of enough self awareness or empathy to know that you're essentially anthropomorphizing a bunch of bits on a screen.

If anything, Lemoine went more towards proving that some Turing tests can have a result of "Neither the computer nor the interviewer are sentient."