I'm with you, which is why I started the post by stating that most group chats don't need LLM assistants. But I do wonder if your friends have ever posted an AI generated image in the gc, or text you suspect was generated by LLMs? I would be very surprised if not.

I'm fairly sure no, unless you count the early days of DALL-E availability, when people were first exploring this stuff.

Most people I know are turned off by generative AI.

Apples and oranges. But if they start sending me slop the outcome will be the same.