They’ve already corrupted the term “AI” to the point of being completely meaningless

Did they? Afaik, LLMs are an application of AI that falls under natural language processing. It’s like calling a rhombus a geometric shape because that’s what it is. And this usage goes back decades to, for example, A* pathfinding algorithms and hard-coded decision trees for NPCs.

E: Downvotes for what, disagreeing? At least point out why I’m wrong if you think you know better.