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Why does this keep happening
Why are the lawyers always surprised that the plausibly-sounding bullshit machine put out plausibly-sounding bullshit
Because a lot of people are sold the idea that the bullshit machine isn't a bullshit machine, it's a magic "do everything" machine. They hear the buzzwords and never look further and just assume it must be great because so many people are talking about it. Or they hear speculation about what it "could" do and mistake that for an actual claim about what it currently does, like any good grift product or pyramid scheme.
Tech illiteracy is a widespread and serious problem today. Everything is computer but very few people have any idea of what a computer is or what it can and can't do.
I remember being in school and being taught not to trust computers, that they can get things wrong and are only as good as the person who programmed them. It really does seem like Millenials were the only group to ever get that message hammered into them (And a lot of us didn't listen anyway).
It helps we actually had computers to work on during Lab class and not Chrome books.