Yeah, they're complaining about a technicality. Using the word "AI" to refer to LLMs or to generative AI is just common parlance. That definition changes every few years. Five years ago, neural networks were referred to as "AI" and a few decades ago, the AIs stealing our jobs were calculators. This is known as the AI effect.

Among experts, "AI" describes a whole research field with a myriad of applications, of which image recognition is definitely one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is a programmer community. I would expect people to use technical terms over common parlance

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't because no one's an expert in all aspects of programming, and as with any learned skill, the majority of folks are at the lower end of the skill spectrum. Some folks reading along are experts in biology and only do some light scripting to process their data, but still generally get the jokes.

But even if it were the case that this was a community exclusively for senior software engineers, it would still be legal to just explain the difference rather than throwing a quip at them.