AI presents a possible opportunity to detect plagiarism on Steemit, and to remove articles and sanction the users according to current or commonly accepted protocol.
A semantic AI engine may parse through articles, and act as a moderator comparing new articles with existing ones, scoring them through similarities. This would prevent the same article being posted twice, even when it has been altered. Existing plagiarism engines don't do a good job at it, as they simply compare original content. A semantic AI understands context, and thus it can notice more subtle differences, such as articles that have been rewritten, but contain the same content as the original article - explained in other words by the plagiarist.
I'm not an expert in AI development, but I am an amateur. So, here I point to a few examples that may be used as bots:
Commercial
Open source
http://www.cyc.com/platform/opencyc/
I suppose that Steem has an API they can connect to. An API would make installing such a bot simple.
The bot can work as a part of Steem, or it can be a third party service tied to a user. The bot might even earn Steem Power for successful services. As a third party service, it could possibly put a scoremark on an article that it has been scanned and approved.
Any ideas how this could work?
I'm on Steem for the first week, so I'm still not fully aware of how it works on the technical level, but suggestions would be highly useful in any case, if anyone wanted to make such a service.