I've now seen some actual high-effort high-skill applications of AI tools starting to emerge. So, it's not ALL low skill. But the bottom rung of the ladder is very easy to reach, and it seems pretty much everyone has a "slop generation phase" besides.

I surmise that most people don't show you their slop/practice work, else the world would already be drowning as is. The few that actually do put their bad early work out there dominate the landscape though.

It turns out that some people get past the practice stage. Maybe most, eventually, hopefully?