This is pretty funny – Tim Ferriss (of “The 4-Hour Workweek” fame) writes a long post about “Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future.” It has some interesting insights and data points, and you might want to read it. But… it is also, likely, written (or co-written) by AI… ;)
Some telltales (unless Tim has adapted his writing style to sound like AI now):
My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago.
But, let’s be honest: one quarter doesn’t make a trend. So let’s zoom out and look at my full catalog over a few years.
And my personal favorite:
Let that sink in for a minute.
The problem (for me at least) isn’t that Tim is (or isn’t – who knows, maybe his writing just sounds like this) using AI to write his blog posts – it’s that, due to the fact that I must have read the “Let that sink in for a minute.” line a million times by now (as it’s a staple of AI-generated slop), I am just so much less engaged with his article. Which is a shame – as it does make a good point (or so I believe, as I couldn’t get myself to do more than skim it…).
