I'll echo what other comments have stated, which is that my problem with AI slop is not just the quality but also the subtle deceit of presenting something that a computer generated as something you created. We all learned in grade school that plagiarism is bad, yet that norm seems to be thrown out the window because what AI generates didn't exist before. It's still not your work. You could argue that crafting the prompt meets the definition of authoring the work, with AI tools augmenting that into something fuller. I guess that's open to interpretation, but I don't find that a very convincing argument. It's easy to craft a prompt that is completely devoid of any real contributions.

I don't mind AI generated content. Just don't try to pass it off as your own. Like, if it's really that harmless then why would someone object to identifying it as AI generated. The fact that not everyone does tells me they're trying to deceive. Some of us object to that, and frankly I don't understand why anyone would be ok with it.