Hi Friends,
In the last week I had two eerie AI encounters. First, my brother introduced me to an electronic music piece that was composed entirely by AI. It wasn't exactly Mozart, but it wasn't bad either...certainly better than some of the human-made EDM I've been forced to listen to at bars and clubs. Second, I had the weird experience of having a text-based customer service conversation with a bot, and I was surprised at how good it was.
I don't believe the current state of the technology is good enough to create a successful AI blogger on Steem, but that day is soon approaching.
Personally, I don't want to live in a world where the most successful, popular participant in our community is made out of silicon.
Here's my questions: 1) Will Steemit be able to implement counter measures to prevent this? 2) What would those counter measures look like? More captia? I hope it's that simple. What do you think?
Hi @thegreatwent ! This are very interesting questions. For the one regarding Steemit and Steem blockchain, I am sure if the time comes and this gets no value for the blockchain, measures will be taken so that the algorithm makes those bots posts of no value.
However, lets think in a different way. What if the posts those bots start doing are so related to what most of people in the platform are asking for help. For instance 1,000 people use the word I dont know the wallet, or how to use a voting bot for the benefit of the steemit community, so after this, the bot starts compiling the best information on this on the entire blockchain, and them its able to type it in good smart plain english and very well explained.
Do you think that would be of more help, or harm for the community?
I believe there are limits to be placed to bots, but if they can get so smart to make this type of things, that is something that we could live with, perhaps.
Your thoughts?
Thanks for sharing this questions!
Regards, @gold84
Did not get any feedback here?
They have been on the stock market for years, and more and more places they are showing up.
Bots are taking over everything. Bots even took over Steemit. I am talking vote bots. They are already sucking a lot from the reward pool. Okay, they make no content now, but the effect is almost the same as if they did.
I do not believe bots are eating the reward pool whatsoever. This is because if it is trash content, it will get little to no reward. This is how steemit was designed.
Please explain, what is a vote bot? I am new to Steem.
as you can see, i am much newer than you are, but i will be short
many steemians pay vote bots to give strong and valuable upvotes to posts they want to promote. It is legit at this moment, but it sucks most of the reward pool. You can see minnows who collected $150 on their welcome post, or some absplute shitpost,but in fact, most of it is bought steem reward.
I think that if there are bots that can make listenable music, then they certainly make blogs, which is a lot easier.
But I believe that people who have that kind of knowledge won't build bots for that... There are a lot more profitable things they can develop instead of that.
Gee there's where I think you may be wrong johnz14. If I can write a program that sucks up $50/day on Steemit, that's still $1500/mo. Run 10 of them, you're talking about $15,000/mo....to me that sounds like it's worthy of someone's time to build. No?
Yes I imagine this is a very probable future - although I am sure at the beginning we will be able to tell the difference, given time, the bots will seamlessly slip into the online community and it will become more and more difficult to know. It's fascinating though isn't it!
Yes it is fascinating francesmary....but isn't that something a robot would say......francesmary is a bot!!! Ok, no j/k, she is human. The joke I like to make when I fail at doing a captia, is "well I failed the captia, I guess that means I'm a robot." Part of what will help bots slip in undetected is the fact that us humans often write sloppy, poorly written ideas with crappy grammar and composition...so the bar is already kind of low in a certain way.
So if I can be mistaken for a bot then you're saying I have great grammar, thank you for the compliment! If you still think I am a bot then you should check out my first video, it proves I'm human ;)
You really like your selfies. Good luck getting bots to understand sarcasm. My boyfriend's an engineer and he doesn't even get it.