In the same way you rely on a keyboard or touchscreen to type this comment. It doesn't mean the tool is the brain behind the work.

that's not how AI was used in this case. It's more like a professor with assistants.

Professor says the assistants - why don't you dig in this direction, I have a hunch it might produce something valuable. And AI assistant does just that, proving or disproving a hunch. This would take the professor a lot of time if doing by themselves.

Keyboards don't suggest chains of reasoning or words to type. When I press the K key, I know exactly what will happen. It's just a translation layer that gives an output known ahead of time and thus does not impinge upon the creativity of putting words together.

A better example would be playing chess against a player slightly stronger than me and using a chess computer to suggest some good moves. I could win, but it certianly wouldn't be just my brain that wins. It would be an amalgamation of my brain with a machine that suggests good moves.

One cannot simply reason by analogy.

frankly don’t know how to reply to these sorts of comments anymore