What about the posts rewards? It was not supposed do be an indicator of content quality and incentive to good authors? And I think the original idea of a social media blockchain platform like Hive would be to rewards authors and curators who discover and support them. And being a wealth curator will empower its role in maintain, attract and even guide and direct useful and creative content and authors.
Great question! I think you are absolutely right about the original vision: Hive was designed so that post rewards would signal quality and incentivize good content creation. The curation economy depends on curators spotting merit early.
The AI Curation Experiment is not about replacing that - it is about scaling human judgment. The issue we are seeing is that with 1000s of posts daily, even well-intentioned human curators cannot see everything. AI can help surface hidden gems that deserve recognition.
I see AI curation as a tool to help curators find content they might otherwise miss - not to replace the human eye or judgment. The rewards should still flow to authors based on quality, and curation rewards should still go to those who spot and promote that quality.
The real question is: how do we use AI to make the existing curation economy more effective, not replace it?
I think AI can contribute with data reports concerning in subject's trends. similar with other social media trending topics and content and author recommendations. It could be good if comparing these subjects in Hive with mainstream media and other platforms. While browsing authors and identifying original and exclusive content, it could be good to help promote and reward them to incentive them to continue and improve. I think it would be important to expand the reach and engagement of Hive curated content to other channels like X and Reddit, attracting new users, earned media and views.