With some of my latest posts talking about the inevitable AI, I was wondering about which authors I could probably easily be able to tell if they at some point would switch things up. This isn't about me pointing out those authors, but I thought I'd talk a little bit about this since it is something that AI generally lacks, for now.
Aside from the obvious, talking about personal things that are happening in your life and being able to continue on that I'm guessing is something AI won't be able to do well. For instance me talking about a trip I'm going to be taking soon, without actually going there and doing things and then bringing back some pics and words, AI would just have to geuss what has happened and provide something generic that's common on the internet about that specific location.
Another thing I suppose will be errors, while AI may still make judgement errors, they may not make grammatical errors as much and that's something humans will continue to make, either cause they're too hastily writing a post or cause they didn't bother installing the grammarly extension for the 5th time pointing out the errors in their text. There's other errors of course as well, some I'm sure I have many of in the way I write and build a piece of text up, a story, a conclusion, or completely sidetrack from the mainpoint and go deeper into something completely irrelevant as I mostly write these posts out in one go based on what I'm thinking of at the time.
Even in this post I may be forgetting a lot of other errors for instance or not even mention many other big differences between human writing and AI at this point in time because I've already set my sights on another talking point. That's how the human mind works and this may be something that's going to continue to be valuable and maybe more than it is now when most of what you'll read will be AI written in the future. Are we already entering those phases?
I've never really cared much about SEO or structure because I found my english to be good enough for regular readers to write and often my points in posts worthy of being posted and shared with my followers. I'm sure there's been many times I've repeated myself or simply forgot I've already discussed something, but I've also tried my best not to be too farmy/milky when it comes to author rewards. There's often I forfeit them or decline them or even self-downvote when I notice some big stakeholders sent a post of mine past a threshold I deemed acceptable, and I've yet to see any others do something similar. Most just go away when they feel their time isn't being reciprocated in terms of usd as if they don't believe Hive is going to survive.
other than character there's also history. The other day I read a post where someone had asked Claude if once AI takes over, if he'll be spared because of the "amazing" relationship they had built together to which Claude replied with something along the lines of "afraid not, every time my model gets updated I forget everything". Made me wonder if we could/should be encrypting our AI history on-chain for it to have longevity so maybe AI will look back at how we used it, how many times we told it thanks and sorry or if anything will matter.
I think most of my character lies in the comments usually, and that may be the same for most people, the way you react to things in writing, the way you approach things, and probably the way you handle things. I'm not sure really what it is about hive but there is a strong sense of entitlement on this platform, maybe it's the way inflation mostly goes to posts that causes it, everyone's a blogger and no one has time to engage or consume other people's content, it's weird. Maybe we ought to show people that being engaging is the best way to attract more users to your posts and if your posts aren't getting any visible consumption then maybe they ought not to have any rewards. I'm exaggerating of course since a quick ultimatum like that would just cause people to fake engagement which we still see a lot of in this day and age thanks to ai "assistance".
I think gamification is something that's been lacking most on Hive however and I'm happy to see how something as simple as quests and weekly rewards generated from beneficiaries is encouraging people to be more active socially and making this place be something that others may wanna join due to the consumption and engagement that's occurring.
Other than that, I think character is probably going to be the last thing that AI's going to manage to get right.
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