"You earn money by writing on Hive."
No, I don't. Money is a service that eases commerce, and because I could only use tokens as money by submitting my fortune to banks, because there is no way to use tokens otherwise, I do not use tokens as money.
Society has far greater values than money. I have always pointed out that Hive is retarded by it's financial focus. The purchase of Steem could hardly have illustrated this better. Mike Tyson said that Don King would sell his momma for a dollar, and this reveals we all have higher values than money. Hive has potential to secure free speech from censorship, and free speech is far more valuable to every one of us than money, because it enables safety signals of existential import to save our lives, while we can engage in commerce and live without money, and most people that ever lived have.
AI is just another example of the ways in which over reliance on financial mechanisms degrades Hive. I just had discussion regarding this matter on the @hivewatchers blog, and will point to my comment there, because it equally applies here.
"...your suggestion that my comment, or part of it, be used to prompt AI for a response which could then be posted as a response to me, has already been done, albeit elsewhere. When this happened it was immediately noticeable, and I noted that in my response. The poster that did this soon lost interest in the topic, and quit the conversation, which I suspect will be the fate of any who do this regarding substantive matters.
"If your only participation in society is as the AI prompter and reposter, society is of little interest to you, and it will be less after you start serving AI commentary, because that's a pretty crappy job with little prospect of advancement. It will never pay well, because it's zero skill and easy entry, and not ever will it engage or tax your faculties, touch on your interests, or enable any intellectual or personal growth - even if you never get challenged on it and can keep doing it forever.
"You will only feel smart the first time you do it.
"As I have always said, Hive is a society that has far higher values than it's token. People that parasitize Hive only for it's tokens have little actual interest in Hive. There will always be greener pastures, more happy climes, more conducive environs that such people will inevitably depart to, freeing the rest of us from their parasitic cost.
"If you resort to using AI to edit your posts, you will never improve your ability to write English, and the task will become burdensome to you. If you enjoy discussing things on Hive, you'll write your own posts and comments, and will get better at writing as you practice it, all while deriving ever greater rewards than whatever upvotes on your posts provide.
"Abusing AI plagiaristically is not fair to anyone on Hive, but least to who does so."
Only the over emphasis of financial rewards creates any risk to Hive from AI, and that risk to Hive comes from a variety of vectors, through governance, through degradation of curation by replacing actual curative interest in commentary with financial incentive, through opinion flagging that degrades discourse, and more.
As I point out, people whose job is reduced to copying and pasting AI's comments will hate their lives in short order. You can help them to live fuller lives and undertake worthwhile work by insisting that Hive promote more profitable and meaningful values than mere filthy lucre.
Thanks!
RE: AI Must DIE!