If I see that the post's itself carried some value I usually merit them. Well you can easily separate the AI slops at a first glance. Our human minds always wants to read something written by a true human. But even AI can make good post's it depends on how good the user is trying to reflect it on their thread/posts. But surrendering to AI completely is just a pure bullshit nothing else.
You can rephrase your idea, rewrite your sloppy writing but the main thing is do not change the way how you feel . A writing makes it alive cause it has some human emotion , experience.
If no reputable users have given him merits
So being a reputable member you're not considering yourself as a reputable or respected person and pushing other's to make the move first? This is so wrong and I think you should change the perspective, if everyone is looking for someone to appears first there would be no one left.
Potentially AI generated posts always come of as out of place in the thread I find them in and never really deserving of merits. They could only look right when it's a thread you're starting, but when replying to a discussion, it's easier to spot.
Great to see someone is actually giving attention to AI without falling in noises. Actually if a user's thread/Topic idea is that user's alone I think there's no room to complain. Cause we probably use AI to write to sounds good and make our topic more understandable to other's. Cause we might have the idea but we're not a good presenting it.
Sometimes you don't even need to have an AI detector to map out AI generated content. Most times I think copy pasted AI contents come from farmer accounts than actual newbies. Areal newbie will refrain from AI the moment they notice it's frowned upon on the forum.
It's true this section is so much crowded that's why don't see any quality post's. AI even goes this farther that we stopped thinking ourselves and asks AI
How to make good post's on forum , pick me some good topic to write maybe these are the criteria of them lol don't know just speculating.
It is also normal that lower-ranked accounts will not be able to make such good posts in the beginning, so I think it is necessary to see in which direction the posts they made from the start are growing. Usually, this is how the post matters of a lower-ranked account should be looked at.
From your post's history I'm seeing you're making good quality post's of yourself from Day 1. So how you're judging other's that they can't but you can. It's a misconception nothing else. Try to change your Point of view for other's.
Some have knowledge but they're not good writer, some have enough good writing skill but maybe not enough knowledge. Well it varies person to person.