Why Are Trail Runners so Obsessed With Using AI to Write on Substack?

TrailFans (no attribution or byline) asks on their blog “Why are trail runners so obsessed with Western States?” and why this might be a worthwhile question, albeit a pretty basic one, what sticks out to me is neither the question or the answer but the AI markdown formatting that was left in the article that was posted. Rookie mistake.

Another question Trailfans asked: “Is Broken Arrow 23k the biggest prize purse in trail running?” To which one could briefly use any search engine to search for “UTMB prize purse” and learn that in fact the Broken Arrow 23K is indeed not the biggest prize purse in trail running. The winner of the Broken Arrow 23K gets an astonishing amount of cash, but when looking at the distribution to tenth place, one quickly realizes that giving $100 isn’t actually that much.