I probably misinterpreted your original post, but it was written exactly like how many anti-AI lefties make their arguments. For example again here you said

because it's searching online sources for a correct answer

Even if you don't literally mean "the AI program is using Google when you enter a prompt", anti-AI people on the social medias do literally think that's how it works.

But I don't see how AI is "stealing" anything. Not anymore than any human artist would be "stealing" by getting inspiration from other people's art, which is what every single artist does.

I do agree with you that people overhype it a lot. I've seen way too many people using ChatGPT as a source as if it's a font of knowledge, and not just an advanced Markov chain.