While the Steemit team greatly admires the very significant contribution Xpilar has made to the platform we are rather surprised, confused and frankly disappointed by this latest action.

We have gone to great lengths to discourage the use of AI, including requiring curators and moderators to check for and not support any AI generated content, be it posts or comments.

Indeed one of the main reasons for the recent major change of the Engagement Challenge was to tackle the growing use of AI comments.

Therefore to see a respected Top 20 witness actively promoting the use of AI to generate large amounts of spam comments deeply saddens us as it greatly undermines our efforts to curb the use of AI on the platform.

While the intention of encouraging engagement may have merit, we do not consider the use of AI to achieve this as a wise path to take on a Proof of Brain blockchain.

We were also very concerned at how long it took to halt the flow of the AI spam comments.

One of the golden rules of software development was obviously not followed - when deploying a new system... Observe closely, react quickly.

As to the reactions of other witnesses and the rest of the community, that is not for us to comment.