The difference is that everyone thinks they're an artist now, skipping pesky things like talent or effort. GenAI is the ultimate tool for people who have the creativity of a potato.
People with early versions of photoshop thought that too. Most were wrong, some were right.
Photoshop was a DTP accelerator and low-cost retouching alternative for Scitex.
Your example would be Andy Warhol (an actual artist) using Graphicraft.