i can't speak for anyone else but i don't exactly find myself seeking out stable diffusion output because a big colourful high-contrast image of a t. rex bursting out the center of mars surrounded by rainbow mandala constellations or whatever doesn't really do anything for me. it's just blockbuster clip art. we had already been living in a broader culture that desensitises people to the impression of substance prior to dall-e or whatever; netflix originals and nolan flicks are visibly high-production-value but, generously, one out of every ten actually says anything.
even entirely hand-produced "blockbuster clip art" like that one pic of the cat with big round sunglasses with space reflecting in it that's been a fixture of 4chan wallpaper threads since time immemorial has long since served as an emblem of the easily-amused (see also any visual artifact that is a mainstay of stoners). and all it is is an original photograph by a certain андрей прохоров from a series known as "a girl and her cat", subject to a deviantart user's "10 minutes in photoshop for practice" for the reflections.
the real risk to awe is highlighted further down in the article and touched upon far too briefly relative to the firehose thing, which is the stain upon awe of suspicion. is this image from a camera or a 3d package or a generative neural network? balancing a healthy fascination with the world with a healthy suspicion of your senses is a discussion that risks veering into dangerously political, religious, not-very-hacker-news-guidelines territory, but i'll play it safe and just say an apocalyptic tone is not conducive to determining what the healthy balance is.