When I try to complain about AI to my mom

My English TA assigned us this absolutely inane assignment. We were given a prompt that was something about answering a hypothetical question from a friend who has just learned about AI. The prompt had a little canned paragraph about what AI is and how it works for context. Same stuff that you might see in the New York Times. I started reading it and realized that it was entirely written by the AI model, because she had included the prompt in it as well. She literally took the prompt, and had it write out a staple of paragraphs, which she just turned around and pasted into the same prompt.<br><br>I told my mom that this was ridiculous, since she has probably read more sentences written by ChatGPT than my fellow students. And my mom, who is a professor in the humanities somewhere, said basically the same thing my TA said, which is that, "_it doesn't matter whether or not I write it. What matters is that I understand the substance of it._<br><br>And I just asked her then, who wrote it? And she said it didn't matter. But I just think that's such a ridiculous answer, and it's what I despise most about this whole thing. When AI advocates talk about how it has some sort of autonomy, they also insist that they are _still_ in control of it. They both get to reap the benefits of the AI system, while also disowning it when it doesn't work properly or serves a particular purpose. But how is it not obvious that the one who writes something is the one who is responsible for it? Who should I go to in this case? Some stranger at OpenAI, or my humanities professor? This is not just a matter of ethics, or even just common sense. This is basic human logic. human logic. The one who speaks is the one who is saying something. Not the one who is acting as a mouthpiece.