Only in the sense that a chatbot is attempting to approximate a human (including feelings and memory depending on the bot), whereas stable diffusion is attempting to approximate a camera.

ChatGPT is approximating human writing. Stable diffusion is approximating human drawing. It’s just that humans express themselves very differently in the two mediums, and writing is usually more self aware and existential, but the underlying mechanisms of both pieces of technology are exactly the same. If one talking parrot learns from a philosopher and another from a drunk, neither one is smarter than the other. And if people want to award the first one a degree then that should be used as an example of how easily fooled we all are.