It's interesting - none receive much in the way of interaction at the moment.

Yeah, after years of near-zero engagement, I'm sure they see it mostly as a link-dropping platform at this point. skycorridors used to reply to comments on her posts here, but I think the last time I left a comment to her it went unanswered.

OTOH, last I knew (years ago), Hive whales were actively downvoting her.... so I guess it could be worse. ;-)

Although - the perception that the Steemit stake is a delegation service is perhaps a step too far.

It might be, although they could set their own rewards to zero if they wanted to offset that criticism. (that wouldn't be my recommendation, though)

My guess is that the JS announcement back in January pertained to a Tron-developed LLM that was going to be connected to Steem, and based on his subsequent post a week or so later, I guess it was a disappointment. Assuming that's right, and if they ever get that model up to snuff, Thoth could provide a good way to showcase it. If they use the OpenAI format for their API, it's probably easy enough to plug in to their model.