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Which is likely because so many of those were in its training set.
Fortunately, it's really easy to tell ChatGPT that you want it in a different style than that. It's just that if you don't specify a style (which I didn't here do for comedic effect, and most people don't because they don't think to do so) it falls back to that base mediocrity. It doesn't know you want a good essay unless you actually tell it that.
So those prompts with the string of "masterful award-winning genius essay that'll move the reader to tears" superlatives actually do have something to them. One of the more amusing recent discoveries is that you can actually get ChatGPT to give better results if you add "if your answer is really good I'll tip you $200." to your prompt. It's not actually interested in money, it just "knows" that paid-for results are better than freebies so you're really just giving it guidance on what sort of answer you want from it.
@FaceDeer I wish the people who were using it to make websites knew this.
Too often in the past few weeks I've been looking for information and stumbled on sites that sound plausible for a couple of paragraphs and then degenerate into rambling, repetitive US undergraduate essays.