I'm with you, which is why I started the post by stating that most group chats don't need LLM assistants. But I do wonder if your friends have ever posted an AI generated image in the gc, or text you suspect was generated by LLMs? I would be very surprised if not.
Apples and oranges. But if they start sending me slop the outcome will be the same.
I'm fairly sure no, unless you count the early days of DALL-E availability, when people were first exploring this stuff.
Most people I know are turned off by generative AI.