The problem comes from people who call LLMs AIs. Then people who don't know how they work assume it is intelligent when it is not. I'm pretty sure that OpenAI is at fault in this by not informing users of the truth.
Quite so. I had a visceral aversion to ML being rebranded AI. ML only very recently became anything resembling AI with ChatGPT. (Admittedly it’s so good as a coding assistant that it does feel like talking to Data from Star Trek though.)