Is that really autism? Imagine if you were in that bot's situation. You are given a task. You try to do it, you fail. You are given the same task again with exact same wording. You try to do it, again you fail. And that in loops, with no "action" that you can run by yourself to escape it. For how long will you stay calm?

Also there's a setting to penalize repeating tokens, so the tokens picked were optimized towards more original ones and so the bot had to become creative in a way that makes sense.