This is a hugely difficult topic. The existence and evolution of AI is a given. I honestly think AI will reach AGI and then ASI, perhaps (much) sooner than anybody can imagine. And this will have direct impact to the blogging side of the HIVE ecosystem and the heart of reward distribution.

For tons of centuries, much of the economy was based on productivity (not counting the traders and the lucky few tapping into some niche and making tons of money without doing much). The more hours one put into something, the more one got paid. Obviously, we assume a certain level of quality in the output. And yes, I know, quality can be subjective. Not much for a couch or a table, but for content such as write-ups, quality is highly debatable ... And there we are: Writeups and other creations we share on HIVE.

If we reward HIVE content based on productivity - as is the case for most people on our planet - the question about AI and the level of its involvement becomes irrelevant. It'll be the time - and work - someone put into the creation of the blog post that is to be rewarded. Whether the work involved 5% AI, or 90% AI doesn't matter. Even the fact the final version of the blog post is entirely written by an AI, becomes irrelevant. The work and time that led to the blog post, is relevant.

The big ass question is: When we reward - more or less - based on productivity: How do we measure this? Honestly, I have no idea. But what I know is that throughout the nine years I have been with HIVE and holding some external curation powers last eight years, I mostly used that curation power for posts I felt the creator did put serious effort into. But I can't proof this is the case. Also, I may have skipped plenty of posts I wrongly categorised. It is darn difficult to figure out what type of productivity was behind the post and someones blog channel. With AI assisted posts, or full AI written post, it becomes even more difficult to see if some serious time and effort was put in by the owner of the blog channel. Even with 100% AI written post, someone may have spend hours and hours debating with one or more AIs to end up with the final, published piece. Who are we than to nulify such contribution?

I think we have to completely rethink the HIVE reward system for content. Since it is obvious the amount of AI-generated content is increasing and will become close to 100% of the content in some to more years from now. Anyone who thinks otherwise isn't objective.