> First, is it just me, or have I already read this article > There's a type of online writer who functions as a human GPT-3, and given a prompt like [[ team c

> First, is it just me, or have I already read this article > There's a type of online writer who functions as a human GPT-3, and given a prompt like [[ team culture tech ]] will produce text by paraphrasing and re-synthesizing from the ~decades of prior art on the same topic This feeling and the rest of the comment put to words something very real. Not even just in articles but once you read about 15 management books the same thing starts to happen. It's all just different words to say the same things that all just seem to morph into one another. One thing that is related to this is but not really: "what the internet thinks about X". For a lot of topics you can see that whatever a 4chan board or a subreddit initially converge on in a given topic is the source for everything else on the internet for a long time after. You'll pick a topic, research it there, and will find that most articles or comments in other sites will largely be different packaging of the same information. Tracking the source of a new insight from a board/subreddit like that and over the weeks seeing it bleed into other sites, then eventually into real life news programs and so on can be super interesting. Sometimes there's really big events that anyone can see ripples of (like the GME craze), but many other times it's more subtle. The sources vary, sometimes it's a netflix show or something else, but "noticing the hidden source" in any article is a fun hobby in itself if you like the internet.