Partner bought crappy backlinks

So my business partner and I have this side hustle and website going. We have been working hard at the blog and getting keywords to rank.

He got talked into buying a couple hundred backlinks and they are all spammy trash. It’s not even like ChatGPT wrote it. It’s like a jumbled mess of paragraphs with links to our homepage and services. SEMrush confirms all of these are trash and I don’t want Google to penalized us and our hard work.

What’s the best course of action here? We have requested that the links be deleted and I said I would even pay for their time to remove them. Talk about frustrating.