Hello everyone, today I would like to share about the so called AI revolution and how it could impact the way we do things here, on the Hive Blockchain.
Once upon a time, a man named Dan Larimer coined the term Proof of Brain, which related to the very architecture of the Hive Blockchain which, at the time, was a part of another Blockchain. Regardless of the landscape of his creation, a novel social media platform implementing decentralization as best it could, spam was around at every turn. It was chaos and antithetic to the very thing it was trying to do, it was a new technology, and the community was simply trying to figure it out.
Proof of Brain was meant to encompass the effort that one puts behind their content. That content was to be awarded value by virtue of minting new tokens, earmarked for content creation. The idea behind proof of brain is to incentivize users to create high-quality content that adds value to the platform, rather than just spamming the network with low-quality content. In a decentralized system, Proof of Brain became a direction that many content creators and developers could get behind, helping to make the Blockchain fast and feeless.
Skip to present day when generative AI took the world by storm and quite ironically, the Hive Blockchain is moving towards short form content, a format once controversial. The 
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Anyway, the community leaders were favourable to AI such as Open AI's ChatGPT being used to earn Hive rewards. They saw it as the way things are going. Of course, if you're not going to put any effort behind, it may come off as spam.
If people can use the chatbot to enhance their ideas, learn better English, structure their mind etc. that's good. If they use the AI as a crutch, it will not add any value to the network, and hopefully, it can be partially filtered out of the reward pool.
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I love that the Hive community is continuing to innovate and adapt to new technologies, and the use of generative AI could be an exciting new chapter in the platform's evolution. With our specific vantage point, creating social network with Blockchain technology, we can pioneer a dialogue with AI as opposed to a purely capitalistic endeavour. In my view, the ultimate goal of the platform is not just to generate profits, but to foster a community that values creativity, connection, and defying boundaries. As long as the people on Hive continue to put in the effort to create valuable content, and Proof of Brain hasn't been forgotten on the back burner, the use of AI could help to take the platform to new heights.
However, this doesn't solve some long-lasting challenges like getting eyeballs on the articles, and how just because a post should be rewarded, it does not mean that people actually read it.
Short-form content can help to address this issue by providing more bite-sized, accessible content that is easier for readers to engage with. This could be an exciting way to bring more attention to the platform and help to increase engagement.
My hope for the future is that Hive develops some prolific female authors whose fame can rest on the foundation built by the short form content, including in the Leoverse. Indeed, it would be great to see more female authors on the platform, and the development of short-form content could help to provide a new avenue for these voices to be heard.
