@simon @carlana At the same time, a lot of the deception is unintentional. When you exist in a sector of the industry that the public knows as "AI", that the media calls "AI", that industry publications refer to as "AI", that *other* products identify as "AI", going out on a limb and trying to build a brand identity around pedantic hairsplitting around "LLMs" and "machine learning" is a massive uphill battle which you are disincentivized at every possible turn to avoid.
@simon @carlana personally I am trying to Get Into It over the terminology less often, but I will still stick to terms like "LLMs", "chatbots", and "PIGs" in my own writing. Not least of which because the tech behind PIGs/PVGs, LLMs, and ML classifiers are actually all pretty different, despite having some similar elements