There's US AI and China AI. Those are the two contenders. We are discussing the problems of using the Chinese AI because of the "evil" govt there. The evil at this point clearly is less evil than that of the US govt.

That's the hypocrisy: not seeing the block of wood in the eye of one while complaining about the speck of wood in the eye of the other.

By trying to be less hypocritical we create a more level playing field based on facts, instead of gut-feeling based hatred.

Whatabboutism is, IMHO, used a lot as a way to circumvent having to address the glaring hypocrisy: i see it's used to shut up those to point out hypocrisy.