Yes, believe it or not, people eventually wake up and realize slop is slop. But like everything else with LLM development, tech is trying to brute force it on people anyway.
I haven't read the article, but it sounds to me you're conflating “how much do regular users trust LLMs to produce good/correct output” with “how much do capitalists trust LLMs to become (and remain) profitable”.
It's not that LLMs are bad, they're very useful. It's that the media they produce is, in fact, slop.
I want to watch Breaking Bad, not AI generated YouTube shorts. I want to listen to "On the Radio" by Donna Summer, not some Spotify generated piano solo. I want to read a high quality blog post about tech with a unique perspective, not an LLM summary of said blog post that removes all the charm.
The gap in quality, when it comes to entertainment, is truly astronomical. I mean, it's not even kind of close. I would expect literal children to produce content - after all, Mozart was a prodigy.
Some people who hate LLMs are absolutely convinced everyone else hates them. I've talked with a few of them.
I think it's a form of filter bubble.