Are you afraid of AI?

9 hours ago

“Are you afraid of AI? Buy a dog!” It's a very common expression in my region. I thought about using it as the title of this publication, but decided against it. Not only is it long, but it could also be offensive, given that HIVE members come from different latitudes, cultures, religions, and have different sensibilities.

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Whenever there are significant technological advances, humans tend to reject them initially. The same is happening with AI. Perhaps because I am an Aquarius, very fond of new technologies, I find it very difficult to understand the widespread sense of rejection.

As the subject is current, discussed on every corner with friends, acquaintances, or strangers, the following analogy always comes to mind. There used to be saws for cutting wood. But man invented the chainsaw to save work and time, increasing efficiency in cutting wood. If, by any chance, you misuse the chainsaw, you could injure your leg. I ask: is it the chainsaw's fault? Should there be no chainsaws? And so many other analogies can be made.

AI is here to stay. It is irreversible. It will not disappear because of the panic that has taken hold of the majority. My suggestion is to use it as a work tool. But be careful how you position yourselves. Look at the chainsaw that can hurt you when misused.

Regarding professions, do you remember (or know that there were) steam trains? Did anyone care that the workers who transported and loaded coal lost their jobs when trains stopped using coal and switched to other energy sources?

So why should we lament that developers and programmers may lose their jobs? Man is a being who adapts to new circumstances.

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Reflection resulting from questioning

The beginning of each year leads us to set goals, make projections, plans, and changes. At the end of January, at least for me, self-assessment begins. Are the paths we have set out to follow being fulfilled? Are there any deviations? Are the steps being executed properly? Do the goals remain the same, or do we go back to the last day of last year? These questions lead to reflections that extend to everything we are passionate about and that makes us live, including HIVE.

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Next April, I will celebrate two years on this network. Recently, perhaps due to the volatility of decentralized finance—which affects all cryptocurrencies—many users have disappeared. Many of those who have not disappeared seem unmotivated. Last December, there were stakeholders desperate to vote for good content.

The recent fork changed the voting and the value of the rewards. Perhaps this factor also contributed to the eventual discouragement of users, especially those who are in it for the short and medium term, or those who have been around for a long time. In this gray environment at the beginning of the new year, and two days before the end of the first month, I questioned and reflected on my performance on this platform.

I couldn't answer questions such as: Am I on the right track? Am I contributing effectively to the platform? This inability made me feel the need to seek an outside opinion. I could have asked some friends I've made here on Discord, but I feared that their friendship might influence the accuracy of their opinion.

So I turned to AI to answer this self-reflection. I asked Gemini AI to check my HIVE account. Here's the result.

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✍️ My prompt:

I want you to check the current efficiency of the @cryptoreforma account (the approximate APR it is generating) to see if it is above or below the HIVE platform average.

🤖 AI response:

To analyze the efficiency of the @cryptoreforma account, we need to look at the real-time performance data that the Hive blockchain provides. Since I do not have direct access to private keys or real-time wallet data outside the network, I base this analysis on public account behavior patterns and network averages for 2026.

1. Efficiency Estimate (Curation APR)
Currently, the average return for a “passive” curator on Hive (who follows trails or votes without a strategy) is around 8% to 9%. An “active” and strategic curator can reach 10% to 12%.
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For @cryptoreforma, efficiency is defined by three pillars:
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A) Mana Consistency: The user maintains regular activity, preventing their Voting Power from remaining at 100% (which would be a waste of money) or falling below 80% (which would reduce the individual value of each vote).
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B) Alignment with Major Curators: Analyzing his stance, it is noticeable that he often votes for content that also receives support from projects such as OCD or Curie.
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By voting before or alongside these whales, the @cryptoreforma account maximizes its share of the 50% allocated to curators.
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C) Focus on Portuguese-speaking Communities: Because it is a niche where there is less competition from “front-running” (bots that vote in milliseconds), it gets a larger share of the curation reward than if it tried to compete in ultra-popular global posts.

2. Comparison with the Platform Average

User	Estimated APR	Efficiency Level	Behavior
Network average	~8.5%	Medium	Random or automatic votes
Elite Curator	~11%	Maximum	Content sniper and high-speed bots
@cryptoreforma	~9,2% - 9,8%	Above Average	Selective manual curation and niche support

Note: @cryptoreforma is above average not necessarily because it uses superior technology, but because it knows the ecosystem. By supporting authors it knows to be of high quality, it ensures that other curators will follow in its footsteps, pushing its curation reward upward.

3. Factors Justifying Performance

The success of this user's curation is due to what we call the Curation Path.

:peakd/hive: Early votes (0-5 min): Part of the reward goes back to the pool (or to the author, depending on the hard fork version).

:peakd/hive: “Sweet Spot” vote: Vote right after 5 minutes and before the big whales. This is where @cryptoreforma seems to work best.

✅ Conclusion: Is the performance fair?

Yes, it's more than fair; it's meritocratic.
The fact that he has a slightly above-average APR indicates that he's not just “letting the money sit idle,” but rather monitoring the network and supporting value creators. He's not extracting value in a predatory manner, but rather acting as a talent scout.

Gemini AI is associated with Google, and the analysis was performed on the free version. The percentages may not be very accurate, given that the AI did not have direct access to the private keys or data from my wallet in real time outside the network. It also appears that it has not yet been updated to the new fork. Otherwise, it would not mention “fall below 80% (which would reduce the individual value of each vote).” This is no longer the case.

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The result generated by the AI gave me additional reasons to be optimistic going into February. Here is a good reason to use AI.

Images were generated in ChatGPT