I agree with you. Some people think the existence of AI is to end learning, but with the application of AI, you also need to understand it, and it is only through learning that one can be able to understand. Even with the existence of AI, there are people who still don't understand it. To me, I still see AI as an advantage because if you can use it well, it doesn't mean you are lazy.
This is because, in recent times, AI has come as an additional tool to help people in their work. AI, as a tool, is not even easy to make use of, and you just have to learn how to be productive with it.
Nonsense that is not based in reality. Not even 0.01% of the users that use "AI" these days have any knowledge about AI. Even fewer have knowledge in the areas in which they are asking AI to do things for them. Very few users are using it as an assistant to make their work faster in areas that they are experts in. AI is not a tool like a hammer, stop calling it a tool. AI is a shortcut for the lazy and incompetent to be able to generate things that they are not capable of doing, that is why they are justifying the existence of AI.
The thing is that you've learned graphic design and that's why you able to evaluate, is it good or not, what was created by AI. Without knowing the basics, how can you tell? The same situation is in other fields too. I'm not a coder, but I'm sure, if AI has written a code, you need a human coder to check whether it's not leading to disaster. Same with writing. In short, no, you can't be lazy even with AI around. You have to learn things if you want to achieve something significant.
Good in theory, completely false in practice. Data from practice shows that most people do not check anything, heck you can even find student essays where the students even included the original prompts or generic parts of the AI's reply into their submissions. Therefore, they were too lazy to even spend 5 minutes "checking" what was received as output from the system.
If it's this fake contrast graphics I have seen around internet you think AI is changing the graphics settings, then you are wrong. You don't need to see an image created by an AI before you, there is something about them that you can't change and that's why I don't believe AI can do much. As a company and a business person, I don't think anyone will risk their job and client to present and AI image to their client with intention of winning them, it's possible.
There is limitation for AI for now which is why some AI apps at going premium. If image from AI becomes too perfect, most of this will not rolloit free service when they know you can't get it for free. Even with all this AI training, these things can never be like what human can do, they have limit that's why human services will forever remain the best, intelligent are for small task fit now.
This is only temporary and it will change. Furthermore, you have not seen what AI has done on my places where there are contests. Users are spamming submissions as fast as possible, almost all of which are AI. I guess I am imagining things.

Sure there is an impact of the contest rules themselves, whereby allowing multiple submissions by the same user makes things worse -- but even with restricting AI submissions, many people are still spamming them. Everything is made worse by AI, very few things have been made better.