This is an incredibly bad metaphor. Nobody, no sane person at least, is claiming that they invented the alphabet and are therefore responsible for everything downstream of that.
The point about cheating on tests is that an exam is supposed to prove that you have internalized knowledge and are able to reason about it adequately. Cheating means that you reproduce the output of that understanding, without actually having done the work of understanding. Chinese Room.
The point about cheating on tests is that an exam is supposed to prove that you have internalized knowledge and are able to reason about it adequately. Cheating means that you reproduce the output of that understanding, without actually having done the work of understanding. Chinese Room.