Agreed. But feeding AI existing text and asking it to generate variations seems a staple of what has become big in 2023.

From what I have seen, the AI released to the general public has been specially trained to create a unique response no matter how little input is given to avoid copyright infringement on it's own training material. It's kind of the perfect engine for students to all ask the same 1-sentence essay prompt and get back unique answers. If ChatGPT fabricates information, gets facts wrong, people still seem to accept and praise the output...