Where the line is drawn as to what's "generative" and what's "AI" may be blurry, but they haven't just banned traditional transform operations.
I think if it gets all the way to a computer model rendering, where the raw data input is in no way shaped like an image “yet”, the distinction between traditional and new-generative-model approaches sounds more like a difference in degree.
passing photons through a filter in front of the sensor is absolutely not even close to being the same as "AI" post processing of the data.
But the thing they pulled to give us the "photo" of that black hole absolutely is.