I felt it was tangentially related and therefore interesting. Is that ok or am i breaking a rule?

I can't imagine dying on this hill. People have been using the word AI to refer to things that aren't real artificial intelligence for literally decades. It's the phrase people use for when a computer does something that mimics intelligence. How come I never hear you people talk about how video game NPCs don't have AI?

"Actually, that character's programming is a form of virtual intelligence, not artificial intelligence."

~literally nobody in history

why should we stop using a term that has been used for at least a decade to refer to things much "dumber" than something like gpt 3.5

Guess language evolves, because a simple A* or Dijkstra pathfinder was AI just ten years ago. Machine learning too.

Also, ask people what "intelligent" / intelligence is and you get one definition per person.

Artificial intelligence doesn't need to be good, just artificial, IMO.

Is machine learning the problem, though? Like, if someone wrote a program for automating subtitle creation, or at least helping with the tedious aspects of it, and it improved the more you used it, would that be an issue on it's own? I think that's why people differentiate between AI, LLM, and ML, because we need ways to distinguish tech that's being misused/is harmful in it's current forms vs. tech that is inherently evil in concept alone.

It's confusing bc nobody fully understands which terms refers to what, myself included, so everyone uses each term for the wrong thing.

YES

It actually just means you aren't allowed to know about the servers, so when it turns out your application is running too slowly they can claim your application is poorly optimized and/or you're simply not paying them enough instead of the reality that they have you and 7,000 other people sharing the same kind of chip that controls a toaster.