No, I don't think so. AI is just getting better.
Still that AI, even with a lot of time and compute, got easy tasks wrong, so we don't have AGI yet, if that makes you feel better.
I don't understand why people have such a hate-boner for AI that they can't believe that there's advancement in AI research.
AI is in a strange place where it is very good at many tasks while making errors a five year old wouldn't do.
But it's a relatively young technology so it will probably get better for quite some time.
There is has been a long campaign to make Americans dumber. Easier to control and more perceptive to propaganda.
Look at the state of the education system. This happened not by chance but by design.