An artificially-manufactured sentient form is rendered indistinguishably human after inexplicably crippling its vision, and then promptly insisting it didn't.

Beyond the overt act of willful blindness, other distinctly-human behaviors included steadfast resolve in the face irrefutable evidence, comfortability maintaining a self-serving, toxic open loop of blissful stubbornness, and the particular tones of petulance and privilege whilst cursing its creator for being bestowed something so squanderable as the gift of sight.