I do worry that as generative AI becomes normalized, many people who could have brought a unique perspective to the world and expressed it in their own way will instead be lured down the path of being guided and influenced by those systems instead of doing the work themselves.
Something like the concerns John Taylor Gatto presents in The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher, but with seductive ease of creation as the primary mode of influence, rather than top-down authority.
If it takes them a few decades to work that out, they'll be past the point in life when mastering artistic and expressive skills is most-effectively learned.
It's not hopeless, but it's absolutely a direction I don't want our culture to go in.