What are your thoughts on using AI image2image as reference?

So let's say I painted a character but I'm unhappy with how it looks. Before AI image generators became a thing, I would post it on an art forum and ask for a pro to do a paintover so I could see what to improve. Then I would use that paintover as reference to fix up my painting.

Now with AI image generators, and especially image2image tools, you can essentially cut out the middle man and employ AI as a tool to do the paintover for you.

Caveat: Granted, if your eye isn't trained enough you may not be able to consciously filter out any possible errors made by the AI and could end up in a scenario where you're just blindly "copying" incorrect lighting and/or anatomy. But as someone who's been drawing for well over a decade and also studied art quite extensively between 2012 and 2016, I feel that this won't be an issue for me. Frustratingly, I can always tell where my art is lacking, but I'm not good enough to know how to go about improving it unless someone shows me how.

Just to make sure I'm being absolutely clear here, I'm not talking about tracing or copy-pasting anything. Every brush stroke is still all me, and so is the original idea. I'm only using an AI-improved version of my own work as reference on my second monitor in order to improve it.

I asked my brother who's a professional artist on his thoughts on this method and he said "it's a fine way of using AI as a tool" and I trust his opinion on that, but I would like to hear what others think of this. Ethics aside, I think this may also be a great way of supercharging learning as you're essentially working with your own full-time art coach and engaging in iterative drawing.

Thoughts?