You're doing curators a favor if you have a large heading that says the post was AI written or you Hired a ghost writer. I see this label, I skip.
Here’s a thought experiment on this network:
Put a disclaimer at the start of your post in bold headings telling people this post was AI written or you hired a ghost writer to do it. Check to see the accounts voting on the post and determine which ones are autovoting and the ones manually curating it. Follow up after 7 days to see how many views and retention time the post actually generated. Then ask yourself if you deserve more than what you’re getting?
Disclaimer: I still don't have strong opinion about AI generated art, I'm exploring the space. But AI written text for content or ghost written works on Hive are just meh.
I don’t know, maybe there’s an actual reason why people don’t put a warning label from the start. Mentioning straight out that their products are outsourced because it ruins the illusion that they put in the work. You wouldn’t want to ruin a brand you built by straight up admitting the work was never really yours. You probably lose some respect for your fave content creators if you found out bulk of the work that won your admiration wasn’t theirs, just their name slapped on it, and you bought into an illusion.
Ghost writers as a service are there because there’s a need for fakers or straight lazy creators to take the easy way out. Has anyone ever tried freelance writing jobs? I did, I can’t believe how much the pay actually sucks when I’m tasked to write an eBook while my work gets slapped by someone else’s name which they will keep the royalties and bought the intellectual rights but that’s how the ghost writing gig works. In the end, just their name/company/brand is enough to convince people to buy their stuff.
Have you ever heard about light novels not being 100% from the author’s work? Some light novel authors got big publishing their web novels from a popularity poll and publishing companies tasked their editors to polish the finished product. Now imagine working with an author similar to how a teenager writes their romance stories at Wattpad, full of errors on the grammar department but it clicked.
Behind every good author in some popular light novel is an editor that struggled to make a cohesive story and sentence out of the product. But the editor’s name isn’t the one being sold here, it’s the story written by the author that made it big.
I couldn’t be bothered with ChatGPT in writing my shitposts for me, I spent a few years as a ghost writer as a side gig required writing 6k words daily even during days when I’m sick doing it hard mode for pocket change. It’s not apparent that I’m a writer given how my atrocious grammar needs salvation but hear my shitpost out:
There’s less drive for me to impress an invisible audience that may or may not care about me or my content. It’s different from having an employer where I have to answer to criticisms about my grammar because I need the job. Some shitpost because they need the money, I shitpost because I need a hobby, we are not the same. For people that take their blogging seriously, don’t emulate my example as it makes your blogs better if you pay attention to the small details of your post (because this is where your potential livelihood comes from). I just blog for the hobby and thank you for the tips, let me know if you’re interested in supporting my OnlyFans.
Here’s a controversial take on ghost writing, I’m sure a lot of people will disagree. Hiring a ghost writer for your blogs is fine as long as you don’t get caught, on Hive. The whole point of hiring a ghost writer is slapping your name onto a product and try to fake it till you make it, but you’re totally responsible for the fall out once caught.
You lied or just didn’t want to mention you hired a service to make the post for you. I find it even inconceivable to use the excuse of forgetting to mention your posts was ghost written if the ghost writer fucked up and plagiarized.
If you already got a good following, consistent autovotes, and good network, why waste your reputation for a few dollars that you don’t even need? It’s more profitable to be trusted by the community than lose a face.
For people that are transparent about their works being ghostwritten, good for you, just don’t salt over curators that prefer to support authors that work on their own content. I don’t think it really matters if the content made by users are bad as long as they’re doing their best. A lot of the stuff posted on Hive aren’t even worth the votes that they’re getting (mine included but thank you for the tips) but I prefer seeing people try their best. Have you been actively onboarding Hive users?
I’ve seen people who post with a clear label they never blogged or written for content in their lives but still take a whack at the platform. A little encouragement down the road and there is a noticeable increment in their writing, sure money may have motivated them but without a community to encourage people to develop stuff they thought they couldn’t do, the platform and its existing community are already changing people’s lives at an individual level.
Personality and content sells but if the content wasn’t made by the personality that is selling it, then it comes off as fake and may lead to doubt of the personality being faked too.
Normal people don’t think about skill, presentation, and history when actively reviewing content they like. You see something that interests you, press like. And in a social media network, it’s not really about the content alone but the people you just want to support with your stake. You can make the best article about apples but I prefer to read about oranges and some people out there would rather vote on posts about grapes. You can post the best content on the subject I’m interested in but it would take a lot more to convince me you’re worth my 0.001$ upvote because I hate you. There’s a rational and irrational way people approach their voting behavior here.
Don’t get deluded with autovotes, maybe at some point someone got impressed by you and they just let their settings stagnate there but if the times have changed, maybe consider asking if you’re still worth the autovotes you’re getting. Never fall into the mind trap that you got big because you got a lot of your $ posts, probably just at the right place and time to be noticed. The platform isn’t going to fall into chaos missing your content. We’re all replaceable in the broader picture just like the old authors that used to be prolific “content creators” from the legacy chain, they left and life goes on.
Faking stuff will eventually lead you to getting caught and it only takes one oops moment to lose it all. It’s just not worth the trouble wasting away potential. Trust in a decentralized platform is a precious resource so people that take community trust lightly will eventually find themselves in a steep climb to get it back.
If you made it this far reading, thank you for your time.