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The way things are going, with everyone training on everyone else's data, we're witnessing the death of creativity and the rise of a grey blandness.
Except when it comes to how 'creative' the prompt engineers are when it comes to coaxing an output of these AIs.
Your comment reminded me of how the quality of web search results has really deteriorated from say 5 years ago. Putting it all together, I wonder if we're also witnessing the entshittification of the open internet, paving the way for the big tech companies to create paywalled platforms of more useful internet (edit: I guess we are already seeing that with shitter, facebook, netflix, spotify etc., although at the moment they're not all paywalled in the traditional sense)