LLMs just follow scripts learned from human written text. In other words, it could only behave that way because someone has written a story to do so. In short, stop giving them bad ideas ;-)
Modern LLMs are pre and post-trained on order of magnitudes more synthetic data than 'ground truth' or directly human-authored text. But you could say the synthetic data came from a LLM, and the lineage should trace all the way back to human text.
I hypothesize it partially explains why Claude's writing gets more Claudish with almost every model release.
I'm terrified of such sentences. My scifi addled brain went straight to: what if Opus invents a time machine in the future and remembers this slight