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The mechanism of machine learning based on training data as used by LLMs is at its core statistics without contextual understanding, the output is therefore only statistically predictable but not reliable. Labeling this as "AI" is misleading at best, directly undermining democracy and freedom in practice, because the impressively intelligent looking output leads naive people to believe the software knows what it is talking about.
People who condone the use of the term "AI" for this kind of statistical approach are naive at best, snake oil vendors or straightout enemies of humanity.
Can you name a company who has produced an LLM that doesn't refer to it generally as part of "AI"?
can you name a company who produces AI tools that doesn't have an LLM as part of its "AI" suite of tools?
How do those examples not fall into the category "snake oil vendor"?
what would they have to produce to not be snake oil?
Wrong question. "What would they have to market it as?" -> LLMs / machine learning / pattern recognition
Wouldn't you just take issue with whatever the new name for it was instead? "Calling it pattern recognition is snake oil, it has no cognition" etc