To quote Doctorow:

Now we come to the third and final novel AI psychosis, the critics' psychosis, that AI is an abnormally terrible technology. This is a species of "criti-hype," which is when critics repeat the hyped-up claims of the companies they're targeting, but as criticism

(read the whole post, of course)

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/#bubble-exceptionalism