His viral post had captured a feeling of exhaustion and frustration that so many can relate to with the flood of AI-generated ‘slop’ and then, ironically, that very viral attention had sent others off to generate their own AI rip-offs of his work.

The framing of this article is kind of odd -- "isn't it weird this guy was accused of being AI?" is not the principal issue here. The issue here is that he put together a handmade ad and it was immediately copied by the AI generated small business losers online who have access to grok. AI is bad and it's filling the internet with useless shit!!