[Generated by Ai]
This isn’t one of those lessons from a proud victory. No, this is me taking a leaf out of my own greedy and corny book, not to follow through my past actions, but to change them. Because I was caught and being penalize for it and it wasn’t just me who is paying the price.
I made someone lose their earnings.
I’m being downvoted, flagged, and watched, and honestly? I deserve it. I'm not happy about it but it is a result of the decision I took, I'm sincerely sorry of my actions and I also regret taking it. I have tried apologizing but I know deep down saying "I'm sorry" won't fix anything. But truth be told, I deeply mean me saying it.
When It All Started? Before this incident, my journey on Hive was all about sharing real stories and genuine thoughts. But recently, I crossed a line. I used AI to write an introduction for a post. Just the intro, I told myself. Just a few lines to polish the beginning. But one small step turned into many. Before I knew it, I was relying on AI more than I wanted to admit.
I had ideas. Real ones. But I struggled with the start and finish. That’s where AI came in, not to write the story, but to help me “package” it. Titles, hooks, even the occasional paragraph, I convinced myself it was still my content.
But I was wrong.
I used to think I could be better and smarter than the system. That no one would notice. I had AI detectors. I’d run my content through them, thinking I could beat them, stay one step ahead.
Then someone dropped a comment on my post, "This looks like AI."
And in that moment, everything crashed.
I checked my content again, and yeah, I saw it too. It was clear. I thought I was being smart about my actions, but the truth was that, I was fooling myself.
The worst part, The damage didn’t stop with me.
There’s someone I trusted. Someone who trusted me. She warned me not to use AI, countless times. She even begged me. “Please don’t use AI, not here,” she said. Over and over.
And I didn’t listen.
Now, she’s being flagged. Downvoted. Tagged as someone who supports what I did, when in fact, she fought against it. People thought I lectured me in it and assumed she was involved just because she knew me. She warned me so many couple of times, again and repeatedly, and I foolishly ignored her warnings.
I betrayed her trust.
She contacted me this morning on WhatsApp. She is disappointed in me, her tone of message and way she expressed it said it all. I'm truly not happy about what I have done because it's annoying.
The Consequence of Arrogance, This is what happens when being loses. When everything you think is to create a content filled with Ai and trying to be smarter than the community that values genuine human content and pays us for it and also losing trust from a family I tried to find myself in and also grow in.
Now, I’m being watched. Every post. Every comment. I feel the eyes. And I should. Because Im the fraud who broke the rules of the community and the family.
And she’s paying for my mistakes too. Which I'm not proud of deep down.
A public apology isn't enough, I'm not writing this to earn sympathy. This isn’t me pleading for forgiveness or a trick to reset my reputation. This is a record of me being guilt, because sometimes the right thing to do is confess, not hide
(Here are messages that shows proof thats she never taught me to generate content with Ai. But kept warning me countless of times on rules of Hive)
To the person I dragged into this:
I can’t change my previous mistake of what I’ve done. I can’t stop the downvotes or change what’s already been said about you. But I want to use thus means to notify the Hive community that, You warned me. You were right. You don’t deserve what’s happening to you because they were my errors. And I wish i can take full responsibility. I wish all penalties are only meant for me, and I'm very, very sorry.
I’ve changed how I create. I now use an app called Otter, a voice recorder to text transcription tool. I speak my stories out loud, and it transcribe them to text the way i say it. No prompts. No AI generated perfect introductions or ending. No shortcuts. Just my words, raw and real.
My new rule is simple, If it’s not from my heart or mind, it doesn’t go up.
No AI for writing. No AI for titles. No AI for convenience. That chapter is closed.
To others still using AI on Hive, I get it. It’s tempting. It feels like help. But if you think no one notices, think again. I myself know when a content is AI generated.
Hive is full of readers, not just voters. They read. They watch. They care.
You might not get noticed or caught today, but one day you will definitely And when come to a sudden, the fall will be hard. It won’t just hit you, it’ll hit the people around you, the ones who stood by you, who believed in you.
Learn from my mistake. Don't repeat it.
For this prompt, for this story, I am the antagonist.
I caused the harm. I broke the rules. I wore the mask of honesty while hiding behind generated lines. But i found myself being caught, judged, and facing the implications of my actions.
But this? This is the start of something better.
Not because it’s easy.
Not because I want a clean slate.
But because it’s the only right thing left to do.