That's because people look at what it can do rather than what it really is. Maybe what it really is doesn't really matter all that much except to 'AI purists'. But to the rest of the world if a company markets something as 'AI' they will treat it as such, including calibration of their response to the effects of that technology independent of how it works under the hood. Whether your job gets obsoleted by LLM or AGI doesn't really matter to people who couldn't tell the difference between the two and it shouldn't matter to them. Their voice deserves to be heard in this whole debate but the tech world has decided they don't really matter.