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We have a different opinion here. I don't think general public has an understanding of the difference between the two things. It may be useful to teach people about it, but I'm not sure how much it would help. People understand generative AI when they hear AI because it's been the only thing they've been in direct contact with. Despite them using ML every day in different aspects of their life this is not something they get to know about. LLMs are different since they directly use the model.
I feel it is good people are getting to know ML and the fact that it is a useful technology; the fact that currently it is associated with LLMs is a side effect. It probably would be better if it wasn't that way, but I do not see it as a big problem.
On the fact that it is polarizing, sure that is currently the case; probably it won't be so in 10 years. That is nothing compared to the past 70 years in which ML has been used and applied in several fields with great success without anyone knowing it even existed.