Indeed, I meant mostly LLMs, but also image generating AIs. I don't know of they have much in common in the way they work, but what is commonly described as generative AI. They are responsible for A) the hype and B) the horrible bullshit, mayhem and destruction being visited on the world ever since their spread.
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381278855_ChatGPT_is_bullshit
I cannot recommend this paper enough. LLMs produce a large amount of bullshit. Also, it's been clarified that they can never be made to stop the bullshit and only produce truthful output - because the concept of truthfulness is not a part of the way they work. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817 https://arxiv.org/html/2409.05746v1
Today, when people talk about "AI" (a term with no clearly defined meaning, unfortunately), most of them mean LLMs most of the time. But when discussing "AI", (or making memes about it) we would ideally specify that explicitly...