Just because it's easy to speed on a road and other people are speeding and they aren't charged doesn't mean you can't be held liable for speeding if you're caught. Likewise, copying proprietary source code from another project into your own commercial software can seem innocuous until you get hit with a lawsuit. You "prove" it the same way you prove any other thing before a court. The jury/judge doesn't need to be absolutely certain that something did or did not happen, just that the plaintiffs prove it beyond the standard of proof.
So yes: we may as well enter a point that computers are virtually indistinguishable from humans in generating "novel" things, in that case the existing laws would need to change. In the meantime, I don't view AI models as a trump card around copyright/IP. If everyone else is following the rules of the road but you decide to stick it and do your own thing, don't expect to ram your way through without consequences.