I'm referring to Zulie Rane's post here, which did raise her profile considerably. But yes, it was triggered by the writer already doing well on her own. It's not a great example though - as it was pretty much telling us what to do. https://medium.com/blog/how-new-medium-writer-remi-grew-from-0-to-168k-followers-in-3-months-5113665b003d

Besides, isn't AI material supposed to be declared as such, whether it's paywalled or not?