You avoided my question because no model was trained by respecting licenses, which even OpenAI admits would be impossible.
Stealing or inspiration is very subjective, and honestly not that important here. The problem with GenAI is the sheer scale. Copying anything made by others still requires significant effort and maybe years of training for a single individual. GenAI simply ingested all the worlds data before people were aware it existed and can now generate an industrial scale of copied work and flood out the content it was originally trained on. See how Internet searches have become completely useless due to all the slop content that is now indexed.
Seeing as how its output is several orders of magnitude higher, the comparison to a few individuals inspiring (or copying) each other is not relevant.