@modulux @MutedTrampet Did you read this part? “But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of AI may turn the tool against the primary goal. Indeed, the mass production at faster and faster pace of "true/false" statements could destroy fertile ground instead of breathing life into new ideas.” This means AI has the potential to be counterproductive, as in the opposite of useful.

You appear to be missing the reason I brought up credit-stealing issues in the first place: I'm not debating the truth or falsity of AI solutions or even the ethics (though that is a related and serious issue), but rather pointing out that to the extent AI's "achievements" are based on taking human processes uncredited — and we know that an AI knows absolutely nothing that has not been entered by or stolen from humans — it has no power of its own, only a conglomeration of human work often without consent and at direct detriment to humans who actually did the work. Hence the comparison to a con person who steals information: Not only is it unethical and harmful, my main point is that the "AI" has no intelligence or skills of its own, and any appearance of such is an illusion comparable to a psychic's con aided by thievery.