Or 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.

And there needs to be an opposing lawyer ready to tear that argument to pieces.

You mean in the same fallacious sense of "you can tell cigarettes are good because so many people buy them"?

That sort of rhetoric works very well unfortunately.

In 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.

Well now bots and AI get to amplify tge effect

"Everybody loves AI, 23.1 billion internet users couldn't possibly be wrong."