I don’t think it’s that and I think you know that; this article had a clear agenda. There is an obvious implication that AI-made means “worse”. As a Software Engineer of 13 years and someone who makes things with AI in their spare time, I hold both to the same standard of quality. To most people it shouldn’t matter who made it, while devs have been spinning the “AI-slop” trope. At some point people are going to have to get over it.