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Someday there'll be a lawyer in court telling us how strong the AI evidence was because companies are spending billions of dollars on it.
by cyanydeez 1y ago
Someday there'll be a lawyer in court telling us how strong the AI evidence was because companies are spending billions of dollars on it.
- mothballed 1y agoOr they'll tell us police have started shooting because an acorn falls, so they shouldn't be expected to be held to higher standards and are possibly an improvement.
- bluGill 1y agoAnd there needs to be an opposing lawyer ready to tear that argument to pieces.
- Terr_ 1y agoYou mean in the same fallacious sense of "you can tell cigarettes are good because so many people buy them"?
- simulator5g 1y agoThat sort of rhetoric works very well unfortunately.
- JohnFen 1y agoIn marketing, that's called "the bandwagon effect" and is one of the more powerful techniques for influencing people's thoughts and behaviors. Sadly, we are social animals and "social proof" is far more powerful than it should be.