[taftster]

What's interesting about your statement is that if you knew they were chatbots, then by definition, they wouldn't be AI. e.g. they wouldn't have passed the Turing test.

I know what you're saying, and totally agree. Unfortunately the term "AI" is now meaningless.

[vouaobrasil]

True enough, but one doesn't need to know whether they are Chatbots. In fact, one doesn't even have to have ever heard of AI/ChatGPT to know that something fundamnetally inhuman and strange were going on. If a person woke up from a coma after Chatbots had taken over the internet, they would immediately notice something very strange and machine-like about the whole experience.

[whelp_24]

That's not what AI means. Also chatgpt can beat the Turing test often enough.

[danielbln]

Complaining about overloading the word "AI" is like complaining about the term "Cloud". Might as well move past it.