There is an even higher level of creativity in creating books, songs and all sorts of art used in model training though. That's your apparent blindspot.

There is no world in which me vacuuming the entirety of human knowledge to make a genai model is ok but hoovering my model answers is not. The hypocrisy is stunning and risible.

Now if you go and make a model based on purely synthetic data and not a single work made by humans, you would have a valid point.