AI can cheaply fake almost every signal we traditionally used to judge quality. I now see this pattern everywhere, in open source, in education, in research, all breaking at the same time. I find signaling theory useful for diagnosing what is happening and why it is so disorienting, and signaling theory and adjacent literature can provide the vocabulary to discuss possible solutions.
Fast mass generated stuff luckily tends to be easier to identify, than the stuff made using well prompted and thoughtful techniques. So yes, slop might remain identifiable for a while now.