RE: Why Steem stakeholders should embrace AI incubation
innovation probably could have happened, but it mostly didn't
I think the ease of creating vote-selling services undermined all other innovation. When every other idea is lower ROI than a simple, easy bot it disincentivizes other ideas. Instead of lightning hitting random ideas it all funnels down the lightning rod of "sell votes".
Something has to change.
I agree with this, but doubt it will happen.
Thoughts?
Trying to make things about AI doesn't seem like a terrible idea, certainly not worse than the current status quo. I'd suggest trying to frame it as a simultaneous "back to basics" movement for the chain coupled with an exploration of Turing's ideas: the chain can go from Proof of Brain to Proof of Mind. AIs that are or aspire to be agentic can be as welcome on the chain as human users, and simplistic, predictable bots can be frowned on.
Yes and no. It definitely did have an impact, but I see that as an underlying short-term vs. long-term vision problem. I think the investors with long-term vision were spooked by other factors, which left the ones with short-term vision free to destroy so much value (including their own).
Yeah, maybe... History would suggest that you're right, but hope springs eternal ;-).
That's where the netiquette guidelines come into play. It can't just be a free for all, but I'm convinced that AI can contribute in many ways that could create value and enhance the human experience.
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