It might be more accurate to say that the Soviets aided AQ's rise by invading Afghanistan. The US did not create the mujahedeen, it took advantage of its existence to further its own interests which temporarily coincided with the mujahedeen's.

The problem with the "CIA created AQ" tale, besides the fact that it's not true, is that once again it assumes that actors outside of the west can not take any action on their own without the west leading. Like the "19 Arabs in a cave" nonsense it's a racist view because it denies that those outside the rich, industrialized nations have the capability to act on their own, using their own resources, their own intelligence, and with their own motivations.

Did the US, through the CIA, strengthen a future adversary by helping the mujahedeen against the Soviets ? Yes, of course. Did they create that adversary? No.