People don’t like honesty because they want to be special snowflakes, but sorry, humans aren’t that creative. The entire copyright and patent system is predicated on that fact, that you can only make money by making a thing exclusive and proprietary. That is directly caused by the fact that not only is it NOT original, but that others absolutely will invent/create the same thing eventually even without exposure to the original material, which is why people want to protect their exclusivity.

“I’m original because I add the little curls to the lines, make the lines softer, and make faces pointy rather than round” isn’t originality, nor is any of the art that people claim copyright for.

Additionally, it is a fundamental misunderstanding of AI modes if you think the models are simply lossy compression of data. That is like saying the alphabet is just lossy compression of The Odyssey.