> when you can quickly create an AI illustration, you don’t need to hold it to high standards of composition, color, or even the right number of fingers. Hence slop.

But it’s not the lack of quality per se, it’s the quantity, it’s the scale. That’s not the fault of the tool per se (‘cause in the right hands the tool is capable of producing quality.)

Lowering the barrier to entry increases the number of the under-qualified. It invites Dunning Kruger to become the norm. That creates an excessive amount of output. It’s going to fall on a bell curve. Slop by definition is the middle and lower of the curve.