I don’t know why you’ve been downvoted. You are, sadly, right. Being a reader for a publication or literary agent was already a gruelling job before AI made the slush problem a hundred times worse. They don’t go into the role wanting to fire off form rejections, but there is too much hopeless perma-slush for them to do much else.

We’re going to end up with AI autograders (for quality as much as provenance) as a first pass before a human read. On the other hand, if the AIs are selective enough, they can guarantee that each passing submission can be afforded a serious, deep read… which isn’t the case right now unfortunately.