> I fail to see how RSS helps filter out AI slop.

Not sure if I'm missing something, but for AI slop to get into your RSS feed, you have to be following something with slop which can easily be unfollowed; this is unlike algorithmically driven recommendations where there is no direct filter from your end.

I think you’d just have to unfollow sources that publish AI slop. But that doesn’t seem too difficult with RSS, I can’t think of any source that sometimes publishes AI slop and sometimes I want to read their stuff. I guess if you tried to put an X feed in there, but I doubt you can do that now anyway.