At work people often ask me for help with documents or translation. Or I see some friends' conversations. While Polish grammar is pretty difficult, it's not surprising to see messages with orthographic errors in 5 out of six words. You just live in a bubble of people who can read and write well.
But they're saying something. The characteristic feature of slop is not informality: it's fundamental meaninglessness.
There is absolutely everything wrong with that if it consistently invades and drowns out the voices of the well-educated elite.
The worst tyranny in this world is the tyranny of the ignorant against the learned. In its worst form, it can lead to mob justice and other horrible things.
Maybe that's not your worldview, but it is the view of many, and it's just as legitimate as yours.
Think only about your own consumption for a second. You're not going to engage with slop, are you?
I'm imagining that whatever your filter process is, that you manage to heavily engage with content that is mostly good and well-suited for you. Discounting Google search becoming crummy, of course.
AI in the hands of talented people is a tool, and they'll use it to make better stuff that appeals to you.
I wouldn't worry about other people. Lots of people like rage bait, yellow journalism, tabloid spam, celebrity gossip, etc. There's not much you can do about that.
But that's not the scary part.
The difference with AI slop is just the enormity of the scale and speed at which we can produce it. Finally, a couple of data centers can produce more slop than the entirety of humanity, combined.