“The volume of generated content is not the problem. The problem is what the volume does to the cost of producing real things.”
The slop floods the channels real work used to travel through. Search results, social feeds, code review queues, art portfolios. The signal-to-noise ratio collapses and the human producers cannot afford to keep producing because nobody can find them. The end state is not that AI replaces human work. It is that AI buries the human work under a mountain of derivative noise nobody asked for.