On topic of LLMs and diffusion models I doubt they're really having that much of a positive social impact, I would bet that in the long run they'll automate more of the jobs humans would like to do compared to the ones we don't, and erode trust on a global level. But the economic gain is undeniable so we're doing it anyway. Automating all work would be a good thing in an ideal world, but in practice it's the one thing that still gives the lower classes some leverage over the capitalists and a world where the average person is expendable and unemployable isn't good for society.

Change will happen - necessarily so, in fact, as more automation is brought online, because the crowd of people excluded from the economy as "redundant" will not be happy about that state of affairs, and it will only grow in size. At some point, they will understand that the real problem is not that they don't have work, but that they don't have a fair share of the automation pie. And things like, say, property rights on means of production / automation stop to matter if most people don't believe in them anymore.