That is exactly it, the AI gives them an excuse to blame someone else even as they had every reason to know, and they did know, we all know they know but the courts pretend like they didn't know because the Federalist Society.

That bullshit line of thinking only remotely works if you let AI make the decisions from the beginning. Somebody still made the decision to ask AI for bullshit stats. That's the problem here, the human decisions, not necessarily the AI output.