Great post on the Substack dilemma - and there certainly is one. You are 100% right on that the AI slop - which results as would be writers and content creators believe that AI is like a vending machine and may dispense true human style creativity.

Nothing could be further from the truth - but that is our current level of not understanding AI.

When AI tries to match human creativity it hallucinates.

Even the more respectable AI agents do not believe they can replace human creativity.

These are machines and need to be treated like the valuable machine entities they can become.