Incidentally, since this is exactly the sort of literally pointless plot development you get from a large language model and since no-one is willing to accept the demotion of large swaths of humanity from the ranks of intelligent beings any time soon, I think we can take this as essentially proof that LLMs are true AI.
(Or AS, anyway, which is a much more realistic kind of hominin mind emulation.)
@cerebrate Somehow I think I can guess what the S stands for.