That's a sly workaround, but as it is delivered as fiction imagine that for him it must be a Cassandra-like experience.

I coincidentally read Kurt Vonnegut's first novel, Player Piano, during my first few weeks exploring ChatGPT (~January 2023~). The book explores the rebellion of automated factory workers, drawing inspiration from Vonnegut's own mid-20th-Century experiences working at a GE manufacturing facility.

That was a Cassandra-like experience.

If anybody has never read Vonnegut, I'd definitely recommend Piano over Thieme's Mindgames.

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I'm currently halfway through Neal Shusterman's Scythe Trilogy, which he published right before LLMs became reality. A ficticious global AI entity, known collectively as "Thunderhead," begins each chapter with its own all-knowing passage about how it perceives humanity's progression.

It's really quite creepy reading, with many of Shusterman's ficticious Thunderhead passages having already proven possible (particularly: characters maintaining friendships with chatty Thunderhead; ability to know something about everything; hallucinations; government by uncodified code; ability to lie, either intentionally or by human deception).

Really exciting storytelling, and I foresee many more of its future non-predictions becoming foreseeable future.