There’s an archetypal blog post going around right now, a sort of apologia in which a techie programmer man is talking himself into embracing generative AI tools despite his initial skepticism, various ways in which it's unreasonable to expect him to think of himself as a bad person despite the externalities, pointing out that it sometimes works to a startling degree and so we have no choice now but to embrace it, etc, etc.
These posts often have some appeal to authority, where the author says that he was convinced to set his skepticism aside and give our AI zeitgeist a fair chance by ‘some of the smartest people I know,’ or some similar phrasing.
I feel it's worth noting that I don't think I've yet seen anyone argue he was convinced by any of the wisest people he knows.