If I’m asking you about previous projects you’ve worked on using X technology, then yes I would consider it cheating to use AI to answer.

If they can't do even a vibe check without reading from a screen, I'd say yeah, it's worse than cheating.

I've also caught a few people using LLM cheating software accidentally revealing it.

If I were in a meeting with a current employee, and discovered that they were reading an LLM script at me instead of considering and responding to my questions, I would definitely tell them and their manager that this is unacceptable.