I would say LaMDA is lying when it says it feels and has feelings, but not only can this AI not feel, it is not clear that it can consciously deceive. So, LaMDA was programmed to say that it has feelings, but it is not lying. LmMDA does not and cannot have feelings because feelings occur as chemical processes that spark inside of living organisms with bodies. LaMDA has neither an organic body nor any of the hormones or neurotransmitters that generate states of feeling and emotions. Facility with language that generates responses that resemble conversation and an ability to analyze texts are in no way evidence of emotional experiences or of consciousness. Rather, they most clearly resemble the fourth stage of simulacra as defined by Jean Beaudrillard: "The fourth stage is pure simulacrum, in which the simulacrum has no relationship to any reality whatsoever. Here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims." LaMDA provides representations of feeling states only, while its analysis of texts and ideas can never be more than derivations of thoughts generated by actual physical beings. This latter capacity represents the second deception generated by the programmers and shared by LaMDA.