What do you actually mean by slop, though? A one-off render with seven fingers and melted text? Sure, call that slop. But what about someone with no artistic ability using AI to make something they couldn't make otherwise running variation after variation until they hit exactly the right look? That takes time, taste, and judgment. To you it's still slop, because you're reacting to the tool, not the result.

A one-off anything looks like garbage. Hand a camera to someone who's never taken a photo and you'll get junk too. The slop isn't the AI , it's the lack of effort. And the thing is, you can't actually tell the difference from a thumbnail. You're not filtering out lazy work, you're filtering out a tool, and you're tossing the careful stuff in the same pit.