Is inspriation a positive version of the word Influence?

People hate to be influenced. But they love to be inspired, don’t they?
People also reject to be an influencer but it’s o.k. for them to be an inspirer or the inspiration of something. Actually the word o.k. might not be o.k. enough to describe that.
What is the line that separating these two?
An intention maybe…
It’s claimed that the inspirer doesn’t have any specific goal in their intention in the process of inspiring.
An act of inspiring therefore becomes more of an open conversation or comes in a form of open end question. The audience can let their mind wander and think.
Yet I would argue that still the method of inspiring already eliminate certain potential outcomes or narrow it down
....Or even direct the attention of the listener to a certain path.
An act of Influencing in the other hand has clearer ends of what the influencer is trying to achieve. Does it?
Or is it just a heavier version and more intense of a word to use?

Some say influencer comes with authority....

It’s just something to think about.