Its the same as with luddites / textiles, people proved they were willing to accept far worse quality because "automation". People have a strange cognitive bias it seems. When they know a person has done something, the scrutinize and correct. When its a machine / automated, or the price is low enough, it gets hand-wavy.
People here often say "we can't set rules, because imagine how hard it would be to follow them at scale". That same strange cognitive bias applies here. Somehow the "push a magic button and it works" and "of course it can't do it just as well as a person every time" kind of take over.
Imagine if many tech issues like access to pornography, corporate ad tech, violent/racist material, AI slop, etc. were all just armies of people doing it (like google / X actually just had a person curate your results really fast for every search). Of course people would be outraged at the quality, but its "automated" so no one questions.
Similarly, if AI was just a giant outsourced coding firm with 10M programmers that could write you a slop app in an afternoon for $1, people would be complaining at how idiotic it is, and how inferior to regular devs. But instead, the "machine bias" takes over and people try to forgive the shortcomings.
there is something in the human psyche that badly wants to replace itself with a machine, despite it spelling our own undoing, and often resulting in worse outcomes along the way. I suppose the whole "make a tool" drive has been wildly successful overall, but this is probably the required downside to such an innate drive.
Like have you seen the 3d printed houses? They are the uggliest, shittiest houses in the world, but somehow the lure of "yes but we can build them in 24 hours" seems to somehow get people interested. If a human made one of those dung heaps they would be pillaried as a village idiot, and rightly mocked, but somehow because "machine do thing", we should get excited about excreted dung beehive houses...