Comment by surfingdino

Couldn't agree more. We are seeing gradual degradation of the term AI. LLMs have stolen attention of the media and the general population and I notice that people equate ChatGPT with all of AI. It is not, but an average person doesn't know the difference. In a way, genAI is the worst thing that happened to AI. The ML part is amazing, it allows us to understand the world we live in, which is what we have evolved to seek and value, because there is an evolutionary benefit to it--survival; the generative side is not even a solution to any particular problem, it is a problem that we are forced to pay to make bigger. I wrote "forced", because companies like Adobe use their dominant position to override legal frameworks developed to protect intellectual property and client-creator contracts in order to grab content that is not theirs to train models they resell back to the people they stole content from and to subject ourselves to unsupervised, unaccountable policing of content.