> signal of low effort Is low effort really a valuable signal though? Or is it what's actually in the content that's valuable? Like here readers are literally

> signal of low effort Is low effort really a valuable signal though? Or is it what's actually in the content that's valuable? Like here readers are literally saying that they found the content valuable "but AI smell". Why is there a "but"? Would there be a similar issue if the author had contracted a human assistant to do X? Definitely not, and I see no reason why the treatment should be different for AI.