In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the Roseto effect at the very beginning of his book. I have read the book before, but I refer back to it often. The Roseto effect is something close to my heart, as the phenomenon is discovered quite accidentally by Dr. Stewart Wolf, who was the head of the department of Medicine at University of Oklahoma, my alma matter. The event was rather famous and was discussed in school while I was there. For the people, who do not know what that is, it is about a medical study regarding the natural immunity of a group of closely knit community from Roseto, Pennsylvania, done in the early 60s. Dr. Wolf found out by accident, that people are Roseto, Pennsylvania are highly below average for the risk of heart attack in the same age group compared to the rest of the country. This was before advent and profileration of cholesterol controlling medication, so at the time it was a big deal. He found out after a lot of research that people of Roseto were immigrated from a village of same name in the Apennine area of Italy, and although it was a tight knit community, the immunity is not in their genes, or diet, or location, or exercise! It is about how they live. It is in their community and interactions. In other words, they were healthy, because they were happy. Happy as a community!
So, why I am talking about it today. I am talking about it because over the last couple of days there have been some heated discussion about whether or not AI can/should be used for a hive article posted for rewards. I think rather than focusing on rules, we should focus on what is good about hive. I think it is the sense of community. We shouldn't do anything that threatens that. AI does, it is literally threatening the existance of this community. With AI going unchecked we will lose our Roseto.
I think there have already been some awesome posts about it by a few users :
A measured (LOL) teaching by 
@tarazkp/ai-earning-and-learning-on-hive
A leveled voice by 
@riverflows/dont-want-to-write-human-content-then-maybe-you-dont-belong-on-hive
And a tribute to my favorite Jet Li movie (NOT), Romeo must DIE by 
I can't do a better job than any of these guys, so I am not going to try. I think moral of the story is simple. As boomy said: "kids, don't do it!"
Yes. I do have an angle.
Bullshit! Show me the engagement. No you don't really want the hivebuzz badge, that means nothing to you. You post everyday, because you are on auto-vote. You know if you post, the vote will come. No matter whatever you have written. Very few people can put together a readable quality post 1/day, everyday.
Now it is even better, because now, you don't have to think and write anymore. You can copy-paste. Thanks to ChatGPT, no one can say you shitty plagiarist! Think again. Think what kind of low life are you to use a bot to plagiarize and post it for rewards. I think you are such a low life who will one day get to a hospital with a life threatening condition, and will meet with a doctor in the ER, who faked his medical exam with chatgpt or similar AI tools. Now WHAT?! SHIT! Yeah, that's you my friend.
Yeah, Karma is a bitch, as they say. And yeah, for you religious Indians, I have actually read Bhagavad Gita, not because my old man would come after me, but because I actually enjoyed it. As a matter of fact, still do. I am an atheist.
I wrote many comments today, on chain, discord, mattermost.........probably 4 + hours worth of writing! No I won't be getting paid for that. Please don't ask me why I do it, because I do not know. But there is a comment I wrote to pfunk:
The best thing many of us enjoy about hive is the human interaction and sense of companionship in todays isolated world. Automation and lack of interaction hinders that. It undermines what hive is all about. This is my opinion and I am proud and vocal about it.
For all those people posting AI generated texts for rewards, you are against me personally. Hive can't ask you to do anything. Hive can't talk about rules. However, individuals can. You can. I can. Yes, with consequences.
My consequence is you maynot like me for saying this. It's okay. I am not doing a popularity contest. I am trying to protect the reward pool for a fair distribution for every individuals, especially new-comers.
Your consequence; well, God bless you! :)
