RE: BREAKING: AI Takes Over Steemit
There should be absolutely no governance of content. Steemit will die shortly as people realize that their content is being abused by bots and the bots make money from it. At what point do people just say "no thanks" and stop making content? They will warn others of their bad experience too (I know I intend to). Now what do the bots do? Nothing to spam anymore so they devour the remaining minnows by tightening the rope and people stop using steemit. Now the bots chew on the dolphins, and then the whales which are impervious to attack because of the weight they hold. People didn't come here to be governed, they came here to incentivize their content without the censorship. Now it is censored by AI (just happened to me yesterday with original content). Bots are simply abusing people now. This is the Titanic heading for the iceberg, I hope this is changed. I am already powering down, and dumping any holding of steem or SBD.
That seems like an overreaction. I think that there are errors, certainly, and things like @cheetah bot are imperfect, but calling someone out on something isn't censorship, it's conversation. It might be annoying, but if/when I see that cheetah has tagged something, if the human poster responds that it's their original content, just posted elsewhere, I believe the human, and so no damage is done by cheetah (and I think good work has been done by it, too).
And I like gentlebot, which uses only positive reinforcement.
It's a zero sum game, which unfortunately means that positive reinforcement for one has a mild negative impact on everyone else, but overall, I think everybody gets to benefit... which means it's not a zero sum game? You know what I mean?
Anywhoodles, I'm here to stay. Even if steemit becomes just another blogging platform, I think the community of bloggers that are developing their talents here are enough reason to keep it going. The bots, at least like they are now, are pretty ignore-able.
Maybe I just have a higher tolerance for mosquitoes (bots that buzz).