I do believe it's the beginning of a new era in terms of how collaboration will happen and how the design process will change, but it is too early to see how the AI tools fit into the whole process. Do they help in brainstorming better? Do they create initial sketches for the projects? Or do they replace the designers altogether?
It’s also hard to tell exactly which data set the AI model has been trained on. With ChatGPT, the latest talk of the town, it’s now invading writing in general or any form of writing. One can’t verify or find what all data it has been trained on and if any of those creative people consented to get their work used for visual or text generative AI tools.
It’s a bigger battle I believe and I feel this is yet to evolve overall in terms of how AI positions itself in the world of art and design.