One of the reasons I liked hive was because you could get real interaction with real people. You could make friends with people from all over the world, learn from them and so on.

With AI the link between the two users is lost, broken or never established. It's not even interaction. It's one user trying to cheat to get some advantage. Whoever is enjoying that had a few screws lose.

I admire your optimism, but I don't think it's going to be better with new users.