> don't want to read an article on travel advice when AI gives us A bit of a tangential anecdote, on the subject of "human written" stuff pre AI. Circa 99-20

> don't want to read an article on travel advice when AI gives us A bit of a tangential anecdote, on the subject of "human written" stuff pre AI. Circa 99-2000 I knew a US company that would hire students from CEE to write travel content for their many .com properties. The students were instructed to write "as if they'd travelled there", or "as if you're living there", or "in an official tour-guide style", and so on. Judging by how spread the content of my friend's writing was, and how "stereotypical" the other pieces were on those properties (that we found after searching for known content), it was pretty clear that nothing on those sites was genuine. Everything was fake! Since then I take everything with a bit of cynicism, knowing how much of the "natural, organic content" is in fact faked with low-paid contributors. But hey, during those times the gig was pretty good for my friend doing it.