New theory is that they think “generative AI” (obviously distinct from normal AI, as everyone is aware) is the one that’s bad because it sounds like “degenerate.”
i remember a while ago there was a whole campaign in defense of an academic who was facing charges of being antisemitic and people insisted he was simply anti-zionist and now everyone is dunking on a piece he just wrote about how it’s actually good to refuse to distinguish between israel and jews
Sometimes I’ll post something like “Bari Weiss is bad at running CBS News and also she wants to run it for bad ends” and several people will comment or quote like “also she’s a Zionist” and like…anti-Zionism isn’t the same as antisemitism, but a sustained volume of non sequitur anti-Zionism maybe is