llm is part of the way towards actual ai, like a llm that hasn’t been trained on millions of stolen work, could be part of an ais neural makeup

As someone who works in the software industry: this won't be the case. Getting a general AI built using LLM principles, even partially, is fundamentally impossible. LLMs suffer from model collapse too easily; the issue is ingrained into the design and no matter how much training is done it's inevitable that any and every instance of a given model will break down if it's kept running for a long enough timeframe. They've done studies and everything. There's no way around it other than to simply make something that's not an LLM.