A venal AI assisting a venal, but limited, human..
It's like calling a rock "murderous" when someone used it to murder another person - understandable, possibly poetic, but completely semantically wrong.
My point is, shifting blame on progress is misdirected and benefits nobody. Fixing issues requires understanding and addressing root causes. As greed (the most fundamental issue, I believe) can be only be possibly solved by achieving post-scarcity (or so I think), I'm suggesting that the next best thing to blame is misaligned incentives and modern economy of "engagement". And not "AI" or "Internet" or anything progress-related.