I watched this humor group when I was little (think 30 years ago). Usually they are inoffensive, but they have this particular sketch were a (man crossdressed as a) woman complains about "his husband hitting her" ... and you can see that one of her eyes is black. With canned laughs during the whole thing.
This used to make people laugh. 30 years ago. Then we had social changes and gradually our perspective as a society shifted, and this humor piece looks ... grotesque.
That's how I interpret the "societal changes" the OP is referring to. We have shiny new things every week and there's no time to adapt to them.
But we are one month into the experiment, and the technology still struggles to get wholly authentic looking media. I'd say it would be wise to give it a few years before claiming victory.
What's with the STEM reference? Are you implying that STEM is related to intelligence and that people without a STEM background are not intelligent?
It is well known among academics (AKA STEM MAJORS) that human society is a chaotic system and that ML can change society for the better or for the worse... the outcome is basically unknown... It is therefore the intelligent choice to consider the negative consequences of this technology.
To not consider the other side indicates a lack of something.
Stable diffusion has been made available to the public for quite a while now and if anything has disproved a lot of the ungrounded nonsense that made companies like OpenAI censor their generative models.