[ineedasername]

True enough. I wonder how many poems (or whatever) per hour Hallmark expects of its human workers to be close to production-ready pending editorial review?

Is 10 reasonable, with maybe 1 or 2 truly viable after further review? That would be roughly 5 mid-range laptops of my type churning them out for 8 hours a day. Maybe 2 if they're run 24/7. Forget about min/maxing price & efficiency & scaling, that's something an IT major-- not even Comp-Sci focused-- could setup right now fresh out of their graduation ceremony with a fairly small mixture of curiosity, ambition, and google (well, now, maybe Bing) searching.

There are countless boutique & small business marketing firms catering to local businesses that could have their "IT Person" spend a few days duct taping something together that could spit out enough material to winnow wheat from chaff to produce something better-- in the same period of time-- than human or AI could produce alone.

I have a focus in a comp-ling background (truly ancient by today's standards especially) enough that I see the best min/max of resources as being equivalent to-- in the the translation world-- as "computer-aided human translation" as a best practice. Much better than an average human alone, and far cheaper than the best possible that can be provided by a small dozens of humans.