Have you ever started to reply to a comment without knowing if you're writing to a Human or a Bot? If have been posting in the last week you know what I'm talking about...

There are some Bots we know and have ignored like @jarvis or @confucius but lately, the number or automated replies have increased exponentially and with replied that leave the author questioning if it's a real human giving feedback about your post, or if it is an automated soul?

Either way, this affects the overall eco-system because authors may not reply to a real user thinking it's just another bot leading to a decrease in interactivity between both sides. This gap is increasing day by day with new bots been added to make automated replied and automated upvotes and if nothing is done, and with the rising AI we may reach a point where it's almost impossible to distinguish Human from Bot replies. It's nothing new nowadays, and personally thinking about this is actually kind of disturbing and fascinating at the same time.

Bots are like "ReplyMiners"...

Users may be thinking "why are my posts being bombarded a few seconds after publishing?" and the answer to that question is quite simple. Those bots are seeking to curate as much post as they can, they do massive replies and those massive numbers of replies will be reflected in the daily gains regarding curating rewards. It's as simple as that, those bot's are taking now fighting for the first line in a concert, and if the concert starts to get more and more fans commenting after that automated reply from the bot, they will earn even more in curating rewards.

Will we see Author Bots soon?

Will "Author Bots" be the next step to mine more efficiently? Oh well, thinking about the logic evolution I think it will not take long for the "author bots" to start posting contents that may be so well written that even a human can say it's not a valid content for the platform. Give a Bot a good database and good lines of code and he may very well be posting under #fiction or #writing without anyone notice it's actually all fantasy and it was not born with a creature with a soul.

Where can we draw a line?

This is a good question that raises a lot new questions. The first thing that the creators / programmers of the author bots can argue in favor, is that whatever is coming out from that bot is something new and that tale posted under #fiction may be as interesting and enigmatic as a tale written by a human, and who can dictate or ban such content? On the other side of the specter would be the radical ones that would seek to find, identify and make sure to penalize somehow with counter bot's that would red flag that content.

Personally, I have mix feeling about this, I found it interesting just for curiosity, what would they write? but on the other hand, I think it's not fair to human users that need time and a lot of thinking process to reach a final piece ready to be published.

And for you, what is your opinion about this question? Leave your opinion about this in the comments below, and by the way, say you're a human just in case!

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Curiosity: This year an AI wrote a full movie script... so maybe all I wrote isn't so far fetch after all...

source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/10/artificial-intelligence-screenplay-sunspring-silicon-valley-thomas-middleditch-ai

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(message from the content creator (ME): if you reached this far in the text, congratulation to you! you rock because you're really using the platform and reading content! thanks and remember to upvote if you like my stuff!)

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words and thoughts to feed the mind by BrunoPro // 30 July 2016
Time thinking about this: 2 days
Time writing draft: 1 hour
Time reviewing to final version: 1 hours
Time to do graphics and text formatting: 2 hours
Total time spent in article: 2 days and 4 hours
Feeling after publishing: Curious about the Stemians feedback...

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#steemit #steem #help #bot #human #originalcontent

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I'll upvote all comments on this article, Just make me know you're human!