Are Sprites "wild" elementals?

[UAnchovy]

I don't recall where this is mentioned, but I seem to remember it said that sprites, plasmoids, are actually lesser voidsents but they lack sentience and only a threat unless they're threatened first. I think it's somewhere in the lore book, the scan which I can no longer find so please correct me on this.

I can't find that in the EE. It only says (p. 301) that plasmoids might be machina waste energy, since they've only appeared in the aftermath of Garlean attacks, and that sprites come into being in specific aetheric conditions, that they are wholly unrelated to elementals, and that they lack sentience.