It’s because language evolves. LLMs aren’t the traditional AI, but we’ve been referring to things like NPCs in video games as AI and all sorts of other decision making trees as AI for so long that we’ve muddied the waters as to the term’s meaning that we needed to get specific with AGI to denote that it would be something different.

It annoys me too, but better to get on board than rail against the current of the ocean.

As someone who studied CS and has followed the field of AI for a long time, you have it backwards. Machine Learning and GPTs like ChatGPT have always fallen under the umbrella of AI. Using “AI” to refer exclusively to AGI is a new trend.

To be a bit combatative here, in my opinion this new definition of “AI” that some people insist on using is either repeated by people who don’t understand the history of the terms, or intentionally spread to mislead people by others who want to win an argument by redefining terms.

Unfortunately, they still have your comments saved in a database somewhere for LLMs to work on.

Hmm…I bet they use the text from edits as training data too. Maybe you could poison the results by hooking a edit bot to a random text generator?