I’ve worked in computer vision way before LLMs were a thing, and it was called AI back then too.

There’s no “BS grift” in regards to that term. Any system that uses an artificial neural network can rightfully be called AI, because that’s what it is.

The “intelligence” in AI doesn’t mean “smart”, it only means the system is able to make decisions based on input. It’s this reason that terms like AGI were coined (again, before LLMs were a thing).