It’s Starting To Be Too Much

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Most likely I'm not the only one in this situation, as Hive has a few active users. Not as many as it used to have, but still, there are a few still standing.

There was a time when people were learning English or any other foreign language, to help them communicate with others, read and set them apart from the pack at work for example. Then internet was invented, translation apps appeared and all task requiring the use of another language became easier.

Today we have AI and seems like most of the people have high, academic level of language skills, without speaking a word in another language. They pride themselves in having perfect writing skills and when you turn off the internet or electricity, they are not capable of putting together a half decent sentence on their own, let alone speaking another language.

If you've been here long enough and started early on the legacy chain, you most likely have witnessed the evolution. It started with copy/paste plagiarism, then continued with rephrasing, after which came AI generated contents and what seems to be the norm these days is the use of AI to write comments. They say it's translation as they don't speak English, but when you look at the text and see it's all AI crap, has very little to do with how a normal humans being would comment on a platform like Hive, where there are no language skill requirements.

I've been getting a lot of such AI generated comments and honestly, it is getting annoying. Even though these are posted by humans, it's like bots have invaded the blog.

Now the question is, am I interested in interacting with AI, just to play nice? I think you know the answer. I don't see why I should waste my own free time to reply to AI generated, fake and meaningless comments to people that most likely didn't even read the post. Trust me, there are better ways to spend my time.

There were times when spending time on the platform was a lot of fun. You met a lot of interesting people, learned about their tradition, their habits, connected and made friends with them. It was a totally different life and it was fun. There were a lot of problems back then, life was not a fairy tale, but those were different problems. I'm not expecting life to stay the same, it would be foolish, but what I see now is just disappointing. It feels like the scale is tipping towards what it shouldn't.

This is my 9th years on the platform, counting the time spent on the legacy chain as well and was thinking what my 8+ years would have been using AI to write post and most importantly, to write comments. Imagine the process. You ask AI to write a comment, you don't even read it, or if you do, most likely you don't understand it (or care about it for that matter), just post it, job done, and you move on.

On the long run this leads to learning nothing, knowing no one and just doing this robotic, senseless, useless shite day in day out. Why? What kind of life is that? There are plenty who have been focusing on finding new ways to do wrong things. All that energy channeled into learning something could have taken you far in life, but somehow this is not clear to them.