This is how I understood that the people picker works. I am not 100% sure, so do not take this for absolute truth :)
Basically, in the context of an Extranet application, all standard builders are completely unaware that internal AD exists. The “hits” you get in the People Picker are in the SiteUsers list and / or database.
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