Right, which is why I asked if it's that much work _today_.

I don't think they went from this going through 50 brains to it going through 1 overnight because chatbots exist. They gradually got there as these lists both became easier to produce and less valuable.

High-quality lists didn't become easier to produce; search engines were created and were unable to distinguish between high-quality lists and low-quality lists, which created a market for lemons.