The value is creates is obvious: finding a needle in a haystack. Is accountability laundering another potential benefit? Sure. Can we stop pretending we don't understand understand the other side of it? Cynicism is nice and all but after a certain point it eventually wraps around and makes us look naive.
Unlimited power, no accountability, and no morals or consequences.
It surely sounds like a recipe for pure evil.
This AI committed an imprisonable offense against society, an act of criminal negligence born of pure sociopathy. Throw the clanker in the clink.