> Or do they magically become "beings" when they die?
quoting from your link
although in practice individuals can still die. In nature, most Turritopsis dohrnii are likely to succumb to predation or disease in the medusa stage without reverting to the polyp form
This sentence does not apply to an LLM.
Also, you can copy an LLM state and training data and you will have an equivalent LLM, you can't copy the state of a living being.
Mostly because a big chunk of the state is experience, like for example you take that jellyfish, cut one of its tentacles and it will be scarred for life (immortal or not). That can't be copied and most likely never will.
quoting from your link
although in practice individuals can still die. In nature, most Turritopsis dohrnii are likely to succumb to predation or disease in the medusa stage without reverting to the polyp form
This sentence does not apply to an LLM.
Also, you can copy an LLM state and training data and you will have an equivalent LLM, you can't copy the state of a living being.
Mostly because a big chunk of the state is experience, like for example you take that jellyfish, cut one of its tentacles and it will be scarred for life (immortal or not). That can't be copied and most likely never will.