Yeah the ghostwriting aspect seems to be popping up a bit more of late. Are people paying others to write their hive posts? That’s weird lol. I can see a lot of people using the AI models to write their trash but paying another content creator to write their posts is odd.
I’m hopeful that people will adopt the disclaimer at the top or decline rewards or something but I suspect that’s not going to happen lol
It's lucrative~ once the person builds a name and rep, they get the autovotes and cash it those autovotes by having someone else do the work while they focus on other stuff off Hive. It's an efficient money making machine with reputation as an investment. I bet a lot are doing it low-key but hard to prove especially if the real owner proof reads the style.
Because they know that transparency, no matter how much it's valued, isn't going to make them money and going the opposite way is being smart because doing the latter is like virtue signaling. We live in a society.