@happyborg This objection is discussed in the article, so it's not new or original, but this exact reason has been my exact tipping point too.
"AI" was a fine term as an analogy or historical background before people on the street started taking it seriously, at face value.
Without going into technical terms like LLM or now LMM that possibly just confuse things, I call it for whatever the use case at hand is, text generation tools, decision automation systems etc. Whether the implementation came from an AI lab or not is not where it gets its value.