The states of mind around this don't seem big enough yet to write a drawn out story, and i'm not sure they ever would be, but we have lots of machine learning language models that could help out ...  Feels like it would work better if I cast the models as stemming from a horrific research project or such, which then relates to fact and fiction overlapping, since the models are clearly in the real world ...

Maybe this story idea would make more sense to me if I imagined that some of the characters were real.  How would I respect possible real people, when I'm likely to guess without understanding them at all?  This is something I value without compromise.

Maybe I could start with clearly fictional characters, and figure out how to respect them better ... of course when you're in that "paranoid" trance you think everything's about you ...