TBH I'm not even sure if I'm using AI half the time. I'm pretty sure any sort of autocomplete gets marketed as AI these days, so anything I type with my phone probably counts as having used AI. "AI" is a marketing term with no fixed technical meaning.
I'm well aware that AI is very broad, but for all intents and purposes, when journalists say something like "AI was/wasn't used to write this article" they're not talking about autocomplete or being affected by A/B tests that happen to use ML, it's pretty clear they're using AI as another name for LLMs.