No, a human being gets inspired by a book, learns from it, adapts it and uses their own creativity along with what they learned to create something new. The AI models so far are e.g. language models. They have no creativity, no character, and no inspiration. They don’t even understand the text they are writing. It totally shows in AI generared texts that are longer than a few paragraphs. Usually the text makes no sense at all. The AIs use context clues from their source material to fool readers into thinking that there is more to it but no AI understands what they are producing.

The human equivalent would be someone plagiarizing a story / melody, change a few things and selling it as their own. There are many court decisions based on whether something is too similar to its inspiration or if the personal creativity is dominant. Only for language models we know that there is no creativity. We just don’t recognize the originals anymore because the language models use thousands of sources and don’t tell us which once they used for a specific text.