I've worked with "AI" before it meant "LLMs." I've worked with Machine Learning and MCMC far longer than the Attention is All You Need paper existed.
This use of "AI" is far, far older than LLMs, and has been used as a marketing term in this general direction since at _least_ the 1980s. Ceding everything and criticizing everything under the label just because of LLMs strikes me as not a productive use of time.