Yes, LLMs have a very aggressive regression towards the mean - that's probably an existential quality of them.

They are after all, pattern matching.

A lot of humans have difficulty with very reality that they are in fact biological machines, and most of what we do is the same thing.

The funny thing is although I think are are 'metaphysically special' in our expression, we are also 'mostly just a bag of neurons'.

It's not 'natural' for AI to be creative but if you want it to be, it's relatively easy for it to explore things if you prod it to.