A friend (university science lab technician, in a field that didn't pay like CS) would make approx. $2/hour extra money in the evenings, from some Web site that directed her what topics to write articles about. Google the topic, rapidly skim, distill/rephrase it to a certain word count. (I suggested she could make a lot more working in a cafe, but she was physically exhausted from being on feet all day in lab, with lots of moving around heavy objects.)

I guessed it was used for filler content for SEO sites.

A question is whether that company would save money by using "AI" text generation, when they were paying real humans so little, for arguably higher quality.