There don't need to be studies done. They fundamentally lack the ability to "experience" in a way that is necessary for a qualia to exist in the way you're suggesting. That's why I say you're anthropomorphising. It's just a complicated math function. There is no internal monologue, like what is suggested by the "I'm thinking" text you see the likes of ChatGPT generate. That's just the "function" being called recursively.
I would love to see Altman bankrupt though, we agree on that