I don’t think so, considering that it was written in 1999. And it’s just way too specific for something LLM would come up with.

The spices are pretty good - great, portable money source that won’t get you killed for being a witch. Everything else sucks.

Something kind of adjacent to this happens in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series. Aliens come over to fix the Earth and humanity, but decide that human nature is part of the problem, and set out to modify it. It’s a really interesting read.