I have no chance of solving these. I am human, but english is not my first language. (Yet I speak at level C1 or better).
The faulty reasoning is where the AI nonsense shows, though.
It's just a way of thinking, and is very learnable if you want to. If you have C1 english those clues don't require any language ability you don't have, but you do need familiarity with the rules and idioms of crossword clues.
When I first attempted cryptic crosswords it would take me hours to solve a single clue. Now I've been solving them for years and the ones in the article took seconds.
