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RE: Is Steem for AI or for people?
Rise of the bots is quite obvious here with bots curating automatically, selling upvotes and resteems, participating in scripted interaction... It is only the logical last step for bots to actually write posts. I am getting the feeling bots will be the end of Steemit if serious measures against automatisation are not implemented in the voting algorithm soon. After all I've seen scripts on Reddit that read the media articles and summerize them better than most humans. Seeing some other comments on this text makes me think bot could make much more intelligent response.
Besides the flood of bots and the selling of votes is against the immanent initial principle of Steemit - to curate and upvote good content. Selling votes regardless of quality says also something about the suboptimal relationship between investment and return and that there is a strong need in finding additional sources of revenue.
It is clear the bots are getting the upper hand on steemit now. You only have to look at the stats for when steemit is down - the upvoting on the blockchain goes on regardless.
And comments are being botted en masse. At a guess I would suspect well over 50% of comments are now automated or manually posted 'junk comments'.
It wouldn't surprise me if automated posting is already taking place. In fact I would probably take the 'if' out of that sentence - I am pretty certain it is taking place already.
As I understand it this all goes against the founding principles of steemit - production and curating of good quality content etc.
Now will the founding fathers (and mothers?) of steemit step in and correct this 'automation to oblivion'?
I fear not...