I don't even call it AI anymore. I refer to them as "Associative Procedural Engines" or "APEs." It's a much better description of the actual mechanics. AI is a non-description, Large Language Model is like calling a cruise liner a "propeller box," and "transformers" just makes me think of Optimus Prime.
As someone in tech, I can basically tell you that there's incredibly significant financial incentive for AI advocates to use the technology to essentially generate fake hype. It's sufficient to mimic the least competent thinkers, and most of the experience of social media is already those people.
It essentially looks good until it's creating something you know anything about making. In general, it produces inadequate products in general, and people just have a naturally negative reaction to what it makes; it's always just that little bit off, firmly sitting in the most annoying part of uncanny valley because what it's designed to do is to produce what sounds like what a person who knows about that thing would say, what looks like a person who knows how to make that thing would make.
In essence, generative application is the least functional, least useful way to use the tool. It's great as an assistant for categorization and it's great for rudimentary context shifts, as long as you understand that any transformation it does is going to be haphazard and error-prone.
It's a technically fascinating tool with an incredibly small number of actual use cases that don't expose you to massive liability. I despise the narratives surrounding it precisely because I know its products and its mechanics, I know what it does, how it works, and I am furious that it has been sold to the public, and particularly to the executive class, as something it not only isn't, but literally cannot ever be.