A bot is just anything automated. Which has nothing to do with ai in any capacity, and only confuses the conversation.

Why would someone define bot as AI? Bots have been around forever. A bot could use AI, but not most bots currently do not.

Because it is? AI is just artificial intelligence. It does not say this has to be done with ML (machine learning), LLMs, or even any statistical methods.

What does this have to do with it not being generative AI?