Just like a competent developer can use LLMs to bootstrap workflows, a competent model will soon have tools like this as part of their normal workflow. A casual user would be able to do things that they otherwise wouldnt have been able to. But an expert in the ML model's knowledge domain can really make it shine.
I really believe that the more experienced you are in a particular use case, the more use you can get out of an ML model.
Unfortunately, it's those very same people that seem to be the most resistant to adopting this without really giving it the practice required to get somewhere useful with it. I suppose part of the problem is we expect it to be a magic wand. But it's really just the new PhotoShop, or Blender, or Microsoft Word, or PowerPoint ...
Most people open those apps, click mindleslly for a bit, promptly leave never to return. And so it is with "AI".
I think eventually it may settle into what you describe. I don't think it's guaranteed, and I fear that there will be a pretty huge amount of damage done before that by the hype freaks whose real interest isn't in making artists more productive, but in rendering them (and other members of the actually-can-do-a-thing creative class) unemployed.
The pipeline problem also exists: if you need to still have the skillsets you build up through learning the craft, you still need to have avenues to learn the craft--and the people who already have will get old eventually.
There's a golden path towards a better future for everybody out of this, but a lot of swamps to drive into instead without careful forethought.
I really believe that the more experienced you are in a particular use case, the more use you can get out of an ML model.
Unfortunately, it's those very same people that seem to be the most resistant to adopting this without really giving it the practice required to get somewhere useful with it. I suppose part of the problem is we expect it to be a magic wand. But it's really just the new PhotoShop, or Blender, or Microsoft Word, or PowerPoint ...
Most people open those apps, click mindleslly for a bit, promptly leave never to return. And so it is with "AI".