This. I don’t think anyone really trusts AI at this moment in time. The answer you get, seems to depend entirely on the answer you want, and this is not how we are accustomed to treating an authoritative source. It’s a little like the old law school joke: a mathematician and a lawyer walk into a bar. The bartender asks the mathematician, “How much is 2+2?“. He replies, “4, of course.“ The bartender asks the lawyer the same question and after pondering it for a moment, he answered, “How much do you want it to be?“
It’s the same thing with words and phrases that get used in a tight-knit community like CC. We think we all know what we mean by an acronym like, SLAC or a phrase like, “liberal arts college“ until we encounter a newcomer who we realize is using the same terms in ways we don’t quite agree with. And that’s even before we get to anything including the word, “ivy“ in it.
Things were much simpler when all we wanted to know was, “what’s the most prestigious college I can get into?”