I was thinking the same thing - Went back and re-read it though, and I think it’s more that the author wrote a first draft and then had AI to help spice some stuff up. He either:

1. Used AI to help and doesn’t care if it sounds a little AI generated / actually likes it 2. Didn’t use AI but reads enough AI slop that his writing style is directly influenced by it (scary) 3. Used AI but doesn’t use AI enough to immediately recognize when language sounds like it was generated by ChatGPT and didn’t bother correcting (this is my guess)

There’s a few times I got tripped up because it went from pretty human writing to “holy shit shit that’s ChatGPT I’m going to stop reading,” yet the author would save it with human writing right after.

This is kind of a ramble, but it actually was one of those pieces of writing that I felt was genuine and improved by some of the ChatGPT language rather than just clickbait garbage - I could tell the author was just trying to make it worthwhile and interesting to read, and I honestly really enjoyed it.