At level of “uses AI” do you draw the line?

I’ve read a lot of articles with quotations in uproar at authors “using AI”, but this usage is rarely defined. Surely, we all accept authors using search engines to do research. Or are there anti-AI fundamentalists among us who won’t even accept that? How about generating names for characters? For synonyms, should authors be restricted to using thesaurus.com or is AI okay? Then it gets a bit murkier. “Gemini - what should character X do at the end of this scene?” AI feeds the idea, the author writes it. Wha