Hi Joshua! Welcome to the forum. The reason why this scenario isn’t the case is because ERVs appear in the same locations in the genomes of both humans and other apes.
For more, see this thread, and especially this series of posts from that thread (also this). Simply put: the chance of this occurring randomly, on terms most favorable to creationists, is less than 1 in 10^1,000,000. No that’s not a typo.