I heard that most papers in a given field are already not adding any value. (Maybe it depends on the field though.)

There seems to be a rule in every field that "99% of everything is crap." I guess AI adds a few more nines to the end of that.

The gems are lost in a sea of slop.

So I see useless output (e.g. crap on the app store) as having negative value, because it takes up time and space and energy that could have been spent on something good.

My point with all this is that it's not a new problem. It's always been about curation. But curation doesn't scale. It already didn't. I don't know what the answer to that looks like.