What a dumbfuck article. It's essentially a gossip-rag level story based on a few random and meaningless tweets from a couple of billionaire douchebags.
I really hate ai generated images of real people. If we thought Photoshop was bad for body image issues this is like putting that effect on heroin. I hope there's a massive backlash against this AI shit tbh. Leave it to meta to find a psychologically toxic application for any given technology.
This is why I tend to roll my eyes at this sort of Tolkien-level analysis of the story and universe. It's just not a high-quality enough thing to really stand up to that sort of scrutiny. It's like talking about Jelly beans the same way you'd talk about wine. There's just not much there, and so much of it is just inventing things in the murk of the story.