In that case, I don't think I consider it "AI slop"—it's "AI something else". If you think everything generated by AI is slop (I won't argue that point), you don't really need the "slop" descriptor.
So yes, they are proposing marking bad AI content (from the user's perspective), not all AI-generated content.
Matt also shared insights about the other signals we use for this evaluation here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920720
And we are still exploring other factors,
1/ is the reported content ai-generated?
2/ is most content in that domain ai-generated (+ other domain-level signals) ==> we are here
3/ is it unreviewed? (no human accountability, no sources, ...)
4/ is it mindlessly produced? (objective errors, wrong information, poor judgement, ...)
I take it to mean they’re targeting that shit specifically and anything else that becomes similarly prevalent and a plague upon search results.