Lying is bad.

Lying about it (by omission) was a substantial part of what made bid bots a problem. If the presence of a "PROMOTED CONTENT" label had immediately appeared on any post with a bid bot vote, a significant element of the bid bot issue would have been addressed.

AI is a very handy tool, although my only real interaction with it is related to image processing.

AI for text is little more than a 2023 version of the "article spinners" that were already in use 15 years ago. Google spent a ridiculous amount of effort and money on creating algorithms that could recognize spun content and relegate it to Page 637 of search results. And so, it became less attractive in an environment where revenue was generated by the number of eyeballs on any given web page.

I believe it's important to find some kind of solution for Hive, simply because real content creators shrugging and declaring "why do I even BOTHER?" could become very problematic.