I think you’re giving too much credit to “professional” journalists. This is also an excellent way to hit a certain word count if you are a few sentences short.

I think you’re giving too much credit to “professional” journalists. This is also an excellent way to hit a certain word count if you are a few sentences short. Basically you bloat it up without needing to write anything new. Listicles and other pre LLM blogspam did this all the time.