The point isn't that it's bad, the point is that the AI did not discover the solution to the problem independently, as news headlines had implied.
it is if you're presenting it as coming up with novel information rather than essentially acting as a search engine for information from its training data (which we already know ai does well, at least with some caveats)
Do you think it's possible that the person who literally wrote (multiple) papers with the answer AI gave, may phrase their question to the AI with similar, or even the exact phrasing they used in previous papers on the same subject ? If I load a bunch of lorem ipsum into AI scientist, labeled as scientific papers, then ask the AI "lorem ipsum" do you think it'll spit out some gibberish from those specific papers?