Basically, I got paid for the brand value of my blog.

That's how sponsored posts work.

For two years, I worked really hard without receiving a payment to grow the brand value of my blog.

Therefore, it wasn't easy money, and I'm not encouraging anyone to use AI to write content.

If you read my other articles (also this article), I have literally told people that they shouldn't use AI to write a complete article. I have also told them how we can use AI to make our lives easier.

Read the article again. You shouldn't judge an article based on its headline.

Every platform these days works like this, and that's how copywriters make money writing clever headlines. I write articles on a wide range of important topics too, but people prefer to read posts that are related to MONEY, even you are commenting on this article because Medium promotes it.