It's an opinion about AI written content and how this changes the way human curators will approach their curation practices on Hive. A random prompt.
I swear none of the words here were written by AI. You'll know by the lack of concern for grammar.
The predominant consensus of large curation communities have been rewarding authors for good content shared on the platform. I'm not going to go into the debate about what quality content is as that's another subjective area for another discussion. Authors that share their own works here are generally rewarded.
By "own" there's enough intellectual property and transformative value provided by the author for the content to be considered original (another area for discussion but not the point of this post). As long as the author gave some substantial effort into the content and personalized it enough to be their own, they get rewarded.
AI content generation tools have been released into the wild and it's now far easier to conjure content from a simple prompt. A few posts on Hive have been marked as AI written content.
For content creators that put more considerable time and effort on their work, shifting to AI generated content is tempting or at least, the possibility of seeing more AI content will shift the dynamic to authors publishing AI content like factories. Because anyone who isn't going to take advantage of this is missing out.
It's not going to be that easy on Hive for users that want to go into AI IF the objective was to make more $ on their posts. The current curation norm approaches AI generated content (written ones mostly) as a gray area. No matter how good the content is, the thought that it's predominantly made by AI takes away the magic of human effort which plays a major role in determining the subjective value of the content.
The human side of the content gets blurred. That post may be the most informative written content I've seen on the subject I'm interested in but it's still AI and had I have access to the same tools, I may just get the same results with the same prompts or something.
I'm studying digital art and the first time I saw AI generated art it was amazing, so amazing that it made me reevaluate why I should even bother learning from the base instead of working on skills that just polish the end result (owing to the small flaws on AI art). But after a while, the images look great but they just didn't feel like they have a soul.
You can read a quote from a book and think it's the best line you've read for ages then get even more hyped after hearing that quote was the result of the author's struggle to conquer this and that but I doubt the emotional impact can be replicated from the same content if you knew it was AI generated.
This is how I view AI generated content in art or something that tries to mimic the art in literature, on the surface level, it looks good but it doesn't have a soul. When I'm reading content from an aspiring novelist from their old works, I pay attention to the small flaws that indicated they have a long way to go then move forward into the present day where their content got better as time went by.
That sense of progression in seeing your favorite creator growth over time is something AI generated content can't deliver. I still like AI content and the tools for the possibilities it opens up. The amount of reference material you can generate for studies is there.
It's unlikely you can compete with informative content once AI writers get more sophisticated. Why bother writing about spiders, cars, or space when there's an AI tool that can produce the information in a much better fashion?
This is where creators that bank on their personal experiences will matter more because no one else can write a better story about their personal experiences but themselves. If I were to be blunt about most of the informative type of content on Hive, a lot are just aggregated material sourced from some other parts of the internet which an AI or you yourself can search easily over Google.
What I can't Google specifically are stories from real people whom I met on Hive talking about mundane things and stuff the general world out there will probably never care but I would, I would care because these were content from people that I noticed and care to mind.
If you made it this far reading, thank you for your time.
