I don’t disagree that there aren’t people who came away with the wrong impression (though they’ve been at most a small minority of people I’ve talked to, you’ve plausibly spoken to more people). But I think that might be owed more to generative models being confusing to think about intrinsically. Speaking of them purely as predictive models probably nets you points for technical accuracy, but I’d bet it would still lead to a fair number of people thinking about them the wrong way.
I don’t disagree that there aren’t people who came away with the wrong impression (though they’ve been at most a small minority of people I’ve talked to, you’ve plausibly spoken to more people). But I think that might be owed more to generative models being confusing to think about intrinsically. Speaking of them purely as predictive models probably nets you points for technical accuracy, but I’d bet it would still lead to a fair number of people thinking about them the wrong way.