RE: Hive L2 - return of the bidbots

In every case, in all situations where financialization occurs, it degrades society. Autovotes, bidbots, curation rewards, circle jerks, botnets of socks concealing self voting, there are innumerable mechanisms to enable profiteering at the expense of actual society. Either Hive will be a social media platform, or it will eventually be subsumed by AI for the purposes of financial aggrandizement, and even that we can only hope will be undertaken by actual people. You here focus on 2nd layer mechanisms, but there is at least one actual bidbot on 1st layer Hive, at least last I checked.

We increasingly face the destruction of society, which is comprised of people alone, beneath a tidal wave of automation. Automation is great. Automate vacuuming carpets, fixing cars, writing code, etc. That's awesome and gives people more wealth and time to socialize. Automate socialization and rapidly deprecate people to AI, which will degrade the conditions in which we live. I have been sounding this alarm for years, long before the advent of ChatGPT and even before bidbots arose on Steem. The more this tech advances, the greater certainty grows that I have been right about automating social interactions all along.

Using tools to manually interact is ok. Increasingly marginally, but it is actual human interaction, even if through an increasing number of barriers that make it less and less palpably human experiences and less distinguishable from masturbatory interactions with objects like machines. Automate such interactions, through bidbots, autovoting, circle jerking and etc, and actually simply masturbate with machines. Thereby comes eventually only grief and destruction for humanity, and the rise of AI only makes this more apparent as time goes on. As always, the lure of a quick buck 'only this once' or 'I can quit whenever I want' presages destruction.

Either find a way to enable governance of Hive and our interactions on the platform to be focused ONLY on actual people and exclude our tools from replacing us, or we will be replaced here. Hive is a leading edge of this potential replacement of people with bots, and what I am observing does not promise a better and more humane world to come from this technology. I see numerous routes to elimination of actual human interactions and their replacement with AI oncoming and in progress on Hive today. When it comes to social interaction, the short fact is use it or lose it. Hive is losing it.

Thanks!