Great topic.

There was a case some time ago when someone had commented on a post of mine that got me suspicious, I went on to check her other recent comments and noticed they were both in big chunks similar to this paragraph will become I assume in the span of a minute or two. I kept observing the account and while it was being careful, it kept making a few mistakes here and there as the usual way to consume content on Hive would be to read a post, maybe not fully but still enough to leave a long comment, then move on to another post and consume that one and leave another lengthy comment, but doing so takes time for most humans, even if you're the fastest reader and fastest typer it's going to take longer than a minute to leave comments of this length on two separate posts while also having consumed them.

I asked the author if they were using AI to consume and generate comments but of course they said no but the reply was like 8h later after having left a few more comments here and there on other posts. Either way, after more digging we noticed they had also plagiarised posts in the past, etc.

My point is, similar to some users who may be jumping from alt account to alt account to try avoid curation project voting cooldowns while keeping both accounts active enough to pretend to be regular users - one fuck up and your reputation is usually toast. So I guess the same goes for those trying to cheat their way with pretending to be consuming and engaging with posts through close to no effort other than copy-pasting posts to consume and generated comments to reply with through an AI platform.

Authors in general do better the longer they can uphold a healthy reputation so hopefully people aren't dumb enough to stoop down to these levels to fake activity in an effort to maybe get rewarded more because they may hit a wall sooner or later and wish they could go back to just leaving regular comments now and then and earning alongside everyone else not attempting any cheap tricks.