The people who are using AI to create the so-called slush are definitely making life more cumbersome and time consuming for everybody else, at least those of us who care to double check whether a story is at least somewhat factual.
AI is great for historical research on something you don't necessarily know a lot about, but only to the extent of coming up with a suggested reading list of the original sources. Sadly, it seems like it is being misused a lot for people to further their agendas rather than to actually learn something.