This one is really dumb. It's part "nobody call tell if the coffee is exactly 212F, so we can't know that it's hot" and part mistaking the symptoms for the cause.

"AI" output is colloquially "slop" because it's deeply flawed, not because a program generated it. Slop is not a Dumas novel that's stood the test of time, it's illogically formatted, weasel worded mid text.

There's also a whiff of stolen valor to slop. Purveyors of unacknowledged slop want the credit that the hard work of writing gets you, but don't want to think or apply elbow grease.