New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie'.

Right now, maybe, although they have staff photographers to shoot content by description - in the near future they and other magazines would want good AI image generation sites that can generate side content for pale white scottish bands and for Little Simz returning to roots in Nigeria: https://youtu.be/tvY31eN3gtE?t=61

If I'm writing a short story (let's say it's fan fiction for "Little Women") about a family in a New England village in the 1860s, images that include non-white people in them are going to look absurd and be ahistorical. Your assumption that the only reason to prompt for an image of an ethnically homogenous family is due to bigotry appears to reflect a negative and pessimistic view of humans. I would guess this view stems from spending too much time reading Twitter comments and forgetting that they are written by a tiny, non-represenative sample of the population that skews towards derangment.

Sometimes people want photos of families that look like their current reality.

I wouldn't want someone from a visibly different ethnicity when I'm looking for something like this.

Even black communities around me have visibly discernable differences. Where I live driving an hour might be enough. We aren't a monolith anywhere

When you take photos of your family do you rent others of a different ethnicity to avoid looking racist?

Which... Is the whole point of using AI. To be able to generate lots of different pictures based on your prompt.

That's perfectly reasonable.

Or maybe they just wanted a picture that looks like themself to post as a profile picture, for example.

Id hope that you don't support people posting profile pictures of themselves in blackface.

And in order to not do that, the AI needs to follow the prompt of the user.