Impact on hypothetical AI downturn

I read lately that OpenAI and ChatGPT are in a financial crisis. While it is changing the tech world as we know and changing the landscape of how people do "productive" work, the cost of infrastructure continues to soar and leave the company in a deficit. I begin to think how this would shape the future even within a years time. There has always been the concern for data centers, and natural resources it must use to keep up with the mass inputs being written every day. If it were to plummet, I sense it may being the power back to the people. School systems cannot keep up with AI usage, deeming classwork meaningless in comparison. If other AI platforms are to collapse with OpenAI, I feel people will begin to develop a stronger sense of critical thinking and creativity. While AI will be implemented elsewhere, prompting to make AI essentially think for you would begin to disappear. People would begin to apply their knowledge in way they had before. I think this would spark a rebound in critical thinking, but also in new ways to develop AI. People enjoy their leisure of having chatGPT give you the answers to everything. Creativity, I believe, will soar in ways to find better strategies of tech implementation. People will begin to enhance their coding skills, and knowledge of IT infrastructure, how systems are meant to work, why they work the way they do. People need to be curious, and I think AI as it stands is removing people's ability to think critically on their own. While these issues may rebound if people developed new solution to AI, I still believe it will be a massive opportunity for our generation to become more involved in the world, finding new ways to solve problems.