I don't quite agree with the exact content of the article, but the headline, distilled into a general concept, has a lot more weight in my opinion.
Can AI help accelerate someone's learning or cause significant improvement? Short answer: Yes, specially with the right mindset. Chess AI managed to keep the game sharp and create new ways to enjoy chess, and I think it'll be the same when the dust settles.

Long answer, following my latest involvement with AI stuff:

I haven't really played that much with text models, ChatGPT and such, but I can kind of relate to this when Stable Diffusion is involved.
I'm a fairly competent artist, and I enjoy drawing both elaborate art pieces and doodling random stuff when bored or when someone says something funny in my socials, and despite the hate of many of my peers, I picked it up and got my own local instance to have fun with.
This thing has fully revolutionized my world as an artist. It's only been like half a year and I don't think I have drawn so much since high school, specially during tough work seasons where I'd normally be busy and too tired to draw in my free time. You can say that every year my quality goes up by a roughly equivalent amount, and this year I'm already outpacing myself.

I don't know, I can't quite explain it in simple terms, but I'd wager it's both the stimulus of seeing art of topics and characters that would normally take months or years between a single new image, and the AI failing at certain elements often (hands, fine details and decorations, eyes, etc...) making you more aware of those elements and thus becoming more mindful of them when drawing, even at a somewhat subconscious level.
Not to mention when the AI does something hilarious and you kinda make it a thing or draw it "for real" from scratch.

And, thinking about it, there's also some ancillary art exercises the AI has gotten me into.
Editing images (for training or "this generated image will be 100% perfect if I redraw this part myself" cases, which makes you learn a lot because of the huge amount of different styles this can generate. Gotta learn to recreate that shading style on the spot!), stuff like ControlNet accepting quick sketches as input, and wanting to duplicate some of the more fascinating things the AI generates. Training models can become a full "art project" given enough love and care and manual art supply. And this also incentivizes to be very clear and tidy for the training to go well. And all of this becomes practice and experience.

Being able to generate really decent images in a few seconds is never going to take away my fun or motivations when drawing, and it's opening new paths to have fun with art, too. In that regard, and finally tying with the thread's content, if the AI has managed to not only help me improve but make me even more active in art, I'm sure it can have similar effects in other fields as well. A writer can easily improve, learning from the terrible goofs, hilarious twists and occasional "getting it just right" moments the text models provide. I can see the same thing happening in areas like music or whatever comes next. An observant and motivated use can turn a ML system into a goldmine of custom examples, and at a ridiculous fast pace, without tiring and on demand!.

And it's fun to tinker with the code, too.