Long ago, in the early days of the "previous hive", there was a user who was only posting about crypto news. It was back in 2017 when the market was still quite new and a bunch of projects were coming out.

I remember clearly how he was getting rewards just by taking someone else's published content and pasting it into his posts. It lasted for a while and then it started getting downvotes. I have not followed that account for years but I guess it has ended posting.

One of the nice's parts of Hive is the interaction between users. You can use some AI to create your content, but if you pretend to interact with your readers, at a certain point they are gonna notice you are a bot and not real, or you will just not interact at all because it does not bring you votes.

I know downvoting has not been used properly in some minor cases, but it would probably work very well if something is trying to squeeze the system only adding AI content to it. I am sure some will try to do so as more and more tools pump out so it will be interesting to see how things develop.