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It's hard to do a serious analysis, but my gut check is that the mainstream image generators are still doing it, but they're a lot better about keeping it to psuedo-realistic versions. "Man with soldering iron" is a lot more likely to get a black or hispanic guy in addition than the sizable Asian majority in the training data, for one example, but "American civil war troops" is either all white or at least credibly 'might have been very tanned'.
On the 'should', I don't think there's a moral position, but from a pragmatic one, if you've got faceblind people in your audience there are benefits. And if people don't ask, variety means you give them options to ask; if they don't care, they've increased contrast at no cost to their message. At the risk of stepping on my usual soap box, there's some benefits to variety, here: when everyone in the scene is Yet Another Blue Wolf, figuring out who is who across multiple stills or shots is a nightmare.
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