Obviously AI isn't alive and doesn't deserve human rights or politeness or whatever else.
But as part of "AI psychosis", many people do end up personifying AI agents, having romantic feelings about them, entrusting them with deep secrets, and so on.
Which then makes it disturbing when people treat agents as slaves, or "torture" them or otherwise treat agents in "abusive" ways. Especially as far too many people see women and minorities as "less than human".
Abusing an AI isn't actually hurting something that's alive and has feelings. But it does say something about the person who is doing the abuse.