I'm still not sure where I stand with this. It reminds me a bit of the skeuomorphic days, where we went to flat design overnight and thanked the designers goodbye. Developers got tired of waiting for a button sprite to be designed for the website. In a way it was cleaner, leaner and faster. But we lost a lot of good work in the process (I was one of those designers).

I think where I stand is AI for supplementing, yes, for replacing, no. Extend from existing work, yes. But if you distance yourself so far from the art that you don't know how it's made, you'll be flying while running out air.