The threads here touch on a lot of good points, @gorilla_wrfre is correct that focusing on quality is a losing game and focusing on communication instead is the right move, this is the same point I made in #459. I personally believe that good art is good art, it doesn't matter who it came from, but most people are not like that, and here I will partly analyze the world from their perspective. The second thread, the conversation between OP and "get off this website," touches on the fact that prompting the AI gives you less of the human who made it, because the AI makes more choices. This is true as well. But this has two different arguments in it that are important to separate.

First, when I make something with AI, I know exactly where it's wrong and where it isn't, and I iterate with the AI until it feels right. This is because I have an extremely strong compass (#34, #39). People who have intuition builds know what they want, know when the AI returns something incorrect, and know how to get it to something correct. The output of intuition builds is further enabled by AI because they have a deeply inbuilt sense of what is right, and now they have a tool that more easily gets them there. This point is made well by boen here:

Second, most people do not have this intuition, therefore what most people will produce and consume is not that good, or is an average of what the AI produces. And what people like OP are complaining about is that AI introduces noise to the system, it's harder to tell when something is coming from a real human being, which can be then taken in two directions, one is that this is bad and will largely lead to a decrease in quality of art overall, which may be true, as mentioned by doomslide here:

The other, optimistic view, which is the one I prefer, is that this makes people who have taste, influencers, etc, more important than before so that "art from humans to humans" is something that doesn't get lost culturally. I now have updated to value good influencers in general more than I did before. My past positions were, they don't matter that much, but now circumstances have changed to make them matter more, not in an "attention is all you need now" way, which I also think is wrong by the way, but that's for another post, but in a "without tastemakers selecting good art society will crumble" kind of way.

Important to note, I'm also defending myself (and the world at large!) from this noise problem by publishing full logs of everything I make. A tastemaker who wants to know how the game came about or how AI was used can see clearly, and can make an informed decision about whether to like the game or not, in whatever way such an individual takes into account the artist instead of the artifact when making such decisions, which is not for me to judge.