"Despite" is absolutely correct when you realize that cheating in the title is a way to make people look at articles when they would rather ignore AI in favor of actually-useful/interesting subjects.

Agreed on the cheating and the displacement of more interesting matters.

But... The title being ambiguous despite the content being unambiguously about AI.

What?

Is the content of the complain that the article is insufficiently ambiguous despite the ambiguity of the title? No