[drrob]

They've been trained on thousands of productivity/influencer/passive-income grift blogs that surfaced in the post '4 Hour Work Week' era, when hustle culture was born.

I consumed A LOT of those blogs back then, and let me tell you they're clearly the basis that AI has learnt from, if you dig some up and read them it's very obvious.

[keepamovin]

I appreciate your honesty! When I read those kind of things back in the days before AI, I always believed the similarity in tone meant they must have all been using some early proto-AI type system to draft their copy - either that or they were all dutifully following some kind of "writing guide" - surely sold by another course!

I don't specifically recall the "not X, it's Y". But I do recall that kind of "preacher's rhetorical" tone.

Kind of funny in a absurd Terry Pratchett/Douglas Adams/Jean-Pierre Jeunet "fully realized quriky world" kind of way. It turned out that the thing which ended up being most responsible for giving birth to Artificial Intelligence on Earth, was none other than the vast collected writings of online coaching course content creators in the early 21st century...