Other STEM adjacent communities feel similarly but I don’t get it from actual in person engineers much.
Moreover, the model doing things like exclusively producing white people when asked to create images of people home brewing beer is "biased" but it's a bias that presumably reflects reality (or at least the internet), if not the reality we'd prefer. Bias means more than "spam and crap", in the ML community bias can also simply mean _accurately_ modeling the underlying distribution when reality falls short of the author's hopes.
For example, if you're interested in learning about what home brewing is the fact that it uses white people would be at least a little unfortunate since there is nothing inherently white and some home brewers aren't white. But if, instead, you wanted to just generate typical home brewing images doing anything but would generate conspicuously unrepresentative images.
But even ignoring the part of the biases which are debatable or of application-specific impact, saying something is unfortunate and saying people should be denied access are entirely different things.
I'll happily delete this comment if you can bring to my attention a single person who has suggested that we lose access to the internet because of spam and crap who has also argued that the release of an internet-biased ML model shouldn't be withheld.
So people shouldn’t say ‘these concerns are just woke people doing dumb woke stuff, but the model is just reflecting reality.’
Maybe the engineers conclude correctly that voicing this concern without the veil of anonymity will do nothing good to their humble livelihood, and thus you don't hear it from them in person.