Haven't we always attributed creations to people, to motivate our own egos to pursue higher achievements in the name if "glory"? With vision of wealth attributed to fame? Forgive me for being cynical here, but this is how I always viewed the world. Names are... just this, names. Things we use to communicate some ideas/phenomena, but are irrelevant in scope of endless evolution. And can function just aswell with some other "identifier" attached to it.
I have come to terms with the fact, that I'm just a spit of sand, just as irrelevant to my own creation, as I am to the cells and bacteria that create me.
I suspect chasing glory is the main driver yes, but we also like to understand how things came to be, and by knowing who made them and when and where we can do that. AI is ushering in a dark age of attribution where we may no longer be able to know how anything came to be after it's spit out of a computer. (I mean dark age as in "it's dark and we can't see," like the Greek Dark Ages or Dark Matter, not in the sense of "times are bad".)
I have come to terms with the fact, that I'm just a spit of sand, just as irrelevant to my own creation, as I am to the cells and bacteria that create me.