I think you misinterpreted it.
A newly contributed maker post will be able to earn a Medal, the Medal will correlate to a certain upvote percentage from Steemmakers and possibly Utopian.
We had it on our mind for a while but now everything is getting on the fast track. Currently we have no quality metric and the steemmakers community account votes at 100% every time. That's no big issue as there wasn't too much SP and content. This is the temporary implementation. We have been thinking of a system to categorize content by quality for a while but didn't prioritize it. The issue is that there is no metric for anyone (including Utopian) to follow the trail according to a quality measure. With the vast Utopian vote it would be no more than fair to prioritize this. The medal system would be a steemmakers only feature for all steemmakers content. Behind the scenes it would be a 1-100% score. Utopian can then still choose to (not) vote on certain articles based on the AI and use our metric as an indication for the % of the vote or not. That's up to you guys, but at least you'll have the extra metric, and we need it anyway.
(Just a sidenote: this meeting happened before the AI news.)