I've largely avoided using the term "AI" to refer to the current LLM and generative technology because it's loaded with too much ambiguity and glosses over the problems with those technologies in the context of conversations around it.
Same, but I have used the term “generative AI” to describe generative models. Never the naked “AI” though (except in conversations with friends where the difference is pedantic because they’re not subject matter experts).
"AI" implies intelligence, which is nowhere to be found. "Text generators" is the best descriptive term.