"What matters is whether the audience finds it valuable..."
While I appreciate your nuanced consideration, in fact what matters is who - or what - attains value in society. Bots financializing Hive will eventually destroy Hive, because people have more salient values than money, and Hive is a society of people, not toasters. That destruction is in progress presently, and the nascent public acknowledgement of AI content creation is merely the realization of the problem becoming common, as it accelerates exponentially.
Perhaps for the last time I will repeat Mike Tyson's quote regarding money and society. "Don King would sell his momma for a dollar." This elucidates the problem succintly. AI is psychopathic, just like Don King was. Financialization is not the basis for success of a human society, and Hive will either become able to rationally support society or will fall to AI.
People just can't outcompete bots in arenas where calculations and algorithms determine value. It may seem silly to compare Hive to our moms, but human values matter far more deeply than money.
I understand your concerns about the impact of bots/AI on Hive and the importance of human values in society. However, it's important to note that the AI tools currently available to us are simply tools that help us with tasks and do not completely take over and do the work for us. While AI may be able to perform certain tasks more efficiently than humans, it still requires human oversight and input to be effective.
I personally use AI tools to help clarify my thoughts and streamline my work process, but I am ultimately responsible for the final output. I agree that it's important to be aware of the potential risks and dangers of AI, but it's also important to understand and not ignore it. We should be prepared for the future developments of AI, but it's important to remember that, at least in their current state, these AI language models are simply tools and can be used for good or bad, depending on the humans behind it.
I agree AI is a suite of tools that have far less than human capacity generally, despite their utility in particular vectors. This but elucidates why such mechanisms should not be afforded means of effecting human rights, such as by voting. On Hive, the curation reward mechanism enables appropriate algorithms to outcompete people for the financial rewards dispersed through that mechanism, and this really degrades the actual human community of users of Hive, especially because DPoS affords accumulated stake governance power.
It is wrong to fail to nip this threat to the people using Hive, and with automated account creation, the problem is far worse than most people grasp. Tens of thousands of bots are posting and voting on Hive today. I hope efforts to secure the human capital that is the true value of Hive are not neglected until the ability to govern Hive has been completely lost to bots.
If that hasn't already happened.