Team Europe’s Deep Dive (Report #3)
We’re feeling just a little overwhelmed - not to say utterly delighted - by the wave of positive feedback Team Europe has received. Goodness, who would’ve thought that a simple curation report could spark so many interesting dialogues?! Thank you. We love it. We love interaction. Interaction - surely the very thing a “social” media platform should be about, right?
As the month has progressed, we’ve continued to search for the best that Steemit has to offer from both posts and comments - still spending longer than we’d like looking for both. With few exceptions (all familiar names to us now), the longer, more thought provoking comments have been in reply to a conversation started by us. Whilst this is lovely for us to see and boosts our enjoyment of the platform, we find it difficult to understand why there isn’t more of this around - we have so many votes that we’re desperate to distribute and with a little bit of effort away from your own blog, there’s a very high probability that we’ll find you.
Well then, to keep a long message short: here are our ”Picks of the Week” by users who certainly have no reason to feel slighted by us since they’ve published content that’s genuinely worth reading.

Philadelphia Connection: A Possible Inspiration for Titanic Character Names by @remlaps, USA
@remlaps is known here not only as a programmer and an excellent analyst of economically relevant Steem data. He also regularly writes well-researched texts with a scientific touch on all kinds of topics that interest him - often completely unrelated to computer science.
Today’s piece explores the theory that the characters Jack and Rose from the film “Titanic” may have their roots in real historical events from Philadelphia. He draws connections to local names, places, and incidents that suggest a kind of hidden link.
The Auyantepui project, by @wlin, Venezuela
In this story, former programmer Roberth White meets his old university colleague Sonya in a café - specifically in a dark corner, out of sight of surveillance cameras. Sonya mocks Roberth and considers him paranoid, as he seems to have almost entirely renounced the digital world. What unfolds is a gripping espionage tale. Not paranoia, but a disturbingly bitter reality?
@wlin stands out on Steem not only through his often profound contributions, but also through his engagement with the posts of other users. He frequently enters into in-depth dialogue with them - every now and then, we find ourselves captivated by his comments alone.
🎶Above and Below – A Tale of Rain, Rhyme, and Shadows - Musical Prose with Caribbean Soul 🎤📖 🎸 by @shemzee, Bulgaria
@shemzee is a talented poet, singer and songwriter who publishes stories and his self-written lyrics at irregular intervals. In this compelling narrative, which seems to be part of a serialized novel with autobiographical background, the protagonist is a quiet, serious musician with Caribbean roots. He lives in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, caught between the past and present reality, and philosophizes about his identity as a lonely outsider, using rap as his tool.
Sadly, the days when @shemzee used to sing and perform for the Steemians have been over for a while now. But who knows? If you ask him nicely...?
About... Untamed // Tutuboxd by @massola, Brazil
@massola sparks our curiosity about the Netflix series Untamed. What captivates him isn’t the crime thriller storyline centered on a grumpy cop, but rather the setting: Yosemite National Park. He visited the park himself a few years ago with his family, and so @massola combines his review of the show with a short personal travel story and other reflections and memories that the title of the series stirred in him. The article even includes a hand-drawn illustration, proudly featured as the cover image.
Le due Patrie by @aston.villa, Italia
A few Italian users have spoken about their diminishing feeling of “home” in Italy and @aston.villa highlights this in his recent post - Le due Patrie. Spending approximately ¼ of the year in Cuba, a country close to his heart, he fears the same loss of community there, seeing an increase in selfish behaviour. Some parallels could easily be drawn between his post, and events on Steemit which made should resonate with its readers.
Little Norway on the map on the wall there by @digi-me, Norway
When @digi-me’s post caught our attention, we were reminded - somewhat painfully - that some pretty awesome events in Europe are currently happening without us. Tour de France – what an event! We’d love to watch a stage or two live on screen, but… oh well. Next year! In the meantime, we’re passively rooting for the Norwegian Jonas Abrahamsen. Well, actually, more for Oscar Onley and Florian Lipowitz... ;-)
El precio! by @jesusjacr, Venezuela
@jesusjacr is wondering who’s actually footing the bill for the flood of freely available LLM-based AI tools. After all, developing these programs and maintaining massive servers to host enormous amounts of data surely doesn’t come for free.
To begin with, @jesusjacr asks ChatGPT who ultimately pays the price for our “future prospects”, and then adds his own personal thoughts on each point.
Unfortunately, Jesus forgot to explicitly ask what price Steemians will have to pay in the end - those whose platform becomes less and less attractive the more AI-generated content clogs the blockchain. We’re confident he’ll catch up on that part.
NO Votes for Team Europe - 🔥🔥 100% Burning 🔥🔥 by @team-europe, Europe
Last but not least, we’d like to introduce our own project.
Until the end of our term, you’re welcome to cast your full votes here on a daily basis - especially when your VP (voting power) is overflowing and you just can’t find a post worth spending it on. You’ll be doing a good deed: according to expert calculations, burning STEEM helps stabilize the currency.
Of course, there’s something in it for you too: you’ll still receive CR (curation rewards), even though all author rewards go to @null.
Just follow @team-europe and watch out!
Gracias equipo,
" Jesús olvidó preguntar explícitamente qué precio tendrán que pagar los steemianos al final, aquellos cuya plataforma se vuelve cada vez menos atractiva cuanto más contenido generado por IA obstruye la cadena de bloques."
Querida, no quise enfocarme en eso porque desde hace unas semanas (que pude instalar los módulos de STEEM en mi VPS) Me he llenado de mucha ilusión por el futuro de STEEM, no quiero pensar en un futuro triste sino en uno brillante, creer con todas mis fuerzas que es posible y luchar porque lo sea. Entonces, esas cosas que opacan el brillo de STEEM seguramente podrán ser contrarrestadas usando el mismo mecanismo que usan los que tienen tales prácticas.
He notado por ejemplo que en la red X cuando alguien quiere engañar manipulando información con un video que no pertenece al contexto, se le agrega un comentario automático donde se aclara que el video no pertenece al contexto.
En cuanto al contenido generado por AI en STEEM creo que puede ser posible crear un sistema automático capaza de detectar estos contenidos y dejar un comentario similar ("Este texto fue generado por AI")
No podemos evitar que haya malhechores en el barrio, pero ellos tampoco pueden evitar que creemos nuestros mecanismos de defensa contra ellos, si logramos algo así seguro podemos convertir una situación adversa en una que le de mayor credibilidad y brillo a STEEM.
Ahora mismo tengo muchas cosas en mente para STEEM, solo tengo que estructurar algunos planes de trabajo y ya veremos que surge. 😉
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I read your post about it and wanted to reply to you long ago. I don't need to repeat the reasons here :-)
I wasn't aware until then that you were also involved in programming. In this respect, your latest post was also interesting.
Having the posts analysed and evaluated by AI is certainly a positive aspect of using AI on Steem. The free version of the models will probably not be sufficient for this. I'm looking forward to reading about your other ideas in the near future.
BTW: There is an approach by @remlaps that has contributions analysed by an AI. Have a look at Thoth.
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Siempre he sido experto programando, pero en lenguajes orientados a la ingeniería electrónica, específicamente la programación de equipos como PLC's y lenguajes un poco más gráficos de los que estarías acostumbrada a ver, en cuanto a la esencia de la lógica casi todo es similar cambiando solo la manera de estructurarla, en la programación de microcontroladores aprendí mucho sobre lenguaje C, pero había una barrera difícil de romper (tiempo y practica) para abordar lenguajes como Python por ejemplo, esa barrera fue destruida recientemente cuando me aventure a desarrollar un proyecto algo ambicioso en el que pase más de 3 meses leyendo y corrigiendo códigos, además de implementar modelos LTSM creados y entrenados bajo mis propios criterios para realizar tareas específicas, en un punto, mirando todo lo que estaba haciendo decidí aprovechar ese momentum para darle algo de tiempo y desarrollo a cosas relacionadas con STEEM (así que aquí me tienes 😉).
El proyecto Thoth se ve interesante, estuve ojeando el github, si no entendí mal en mi vistazo rápido lo que hace es curar contenido usando modelos de Arli Ai para encontrar artículos candidatos, en alguna parte del código vi que describía a Gemini de Google, hasta ahora solo he interactuado con la API de Binance y estoy comenzando a explorar Steem con vista en la API de Telegram y Whatsapp para mi proyecto en desarrollo, así que soy un bebe en el tema, pero uno con muchas energías te aseguro.
Sobre los modelos, según lo que queramos hacer, nosotros mismos podemos crear y entrenar los modelos, en este caso lo más esencial serían los datos para el entrenamiento, queremos que detecte IA? necesitaríamos mostrarle mucho contenido generado por IA y mucho contenido generado por humanos para que aprenda a diferenciar entre ambos.
Son cosas que seguro van a requerir trabajo, tiempo y potencia de cómputo, no sé si ya existan modelos que podamos usar. Por ahora quiero centrarme en el proyecto recién iniciado del Messenger para Steem, un proyecto sencillo que llenara el tanque con suficiente combustible para que pueda luego adentrarme en terrenos más profundos.
Me alegra mucho que alguien de tu calibre haya volteado a mirarme porque se que tienes mucho más conocimiento y experiencia y que seguro podrás ayudarme con ciertas cosas cuando haga falta.!!
Saludos!!
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I started Thoth with the free models from ArliAI, but somewhere along the way I learned that Gemini has a free tier, too. I never got around to updating the variable naming, but right now, Thoth works with both sets of models. Eventually, I might add Hugging Face API, too, if I can find time and figure out how. I've seen claims that they have a free tier, but I haven't been able to confirm that so far.
The free tier from ArliAI currently offers the Qwen3-14B family, but those results are currently unimpressive. The gemini family which is available for free from Google produces far superior results right now (You can see those results at the @thoth.test account, and you can see a Qwen3-14B run here.).
The main point of Thoth isn't the AI analysis - that's just an enabler. The main point is to provide an alternative to the spammy delegation bots that are currently flooding the social ecosystem here with pollution.
From the original post, I agree with @moecki that there's probably not a free way to do the AI detection at the scale needed to evaluate every post. Eventually I hope to plug both plagiarism detection and AI detection into Thoth, but I'm thinking that both will probably require paid services. The only reason Thoth operates for free is that I do a lot of screening using traditional filtering techniques before the LLM ever sees anything.
Thoth's prompt does direct it to filter out AI and plagiarized content, but I doubt very much if the LLM really has the capability to do that.
As you note, we could roll our own AI detection, but I think that would require more compute & storage resources than I have available to me, and I think it would probably just be cheaper to get a paid subscription to an API from a service that already does it.
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El proyecto en si me parece una gran iniciativa, además de la importancia que tiene encontrar personas en busca de soluciones, actualmente hay muchas cosas rodando por ahí que pueden ser de utilidad y sé que a medida que se adentra en el desarrollo del proyecto podrá encontrar cosas de mayor utilidad y desechar las de menor utilidad, ha tocado un punto importante y es saber que hay disponible antes de invertir tiempo y recursos intentando inventar "la rueda", si ya existe y es más económico usarlo entonces es la opción más factible.
Cuando entiendo que tenemos limitaciones a funciones porque algo avanzado requiere un pago y miro que STEEM a diario genera una piscina de dinero para repartir no le encuentro lógica al asunto, ¿cómo no distribuir parte de esa piscina al desarrollo de la cadena de bloques al desarrollo del ecosistema?, si STEEM es una blockchain que produce recursos cada día seguro habrá alguna manera de atraer esos recursos al desarrollo de proyectos que permitan mejorar el ecosistema, como lo es su caso, así ya no habrían esas limitaciones sobre buscar cosas gratuitas y limitarse cuando se requiera versión de pago, encontrar la forma de hacerlo de manera transparente tal vez sea un reto pero es algo que está ahí y no se aprovecha.
De verdad parece un gran proyecto, estoy seguro de que podrá marcar un antes y un después cuando esté completamente desarrollado.
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Haha, of course, you don’t forget anything. We phrased it a bit ambiguously - please forgive us... ;-)
I love your optimism and truly believe you'll manage to carry out your plans, which are shaped purely by positive thinking.
An automatic “warning notice” is definitely a good idea. But unfortunately, it won’t stop the poison of the chain (auto-votes, forced posts for delegation services...) from spreading. Greed doesn’t care about well-meaning intentions that serve the community.
Estoy seguro que no evitaremos el tipo de cosas malas que hacen daño, pero si podemos evitar que los usuarios sean engañados por mensajes creados con IA, al menos eso para iniciar así que no es un aviso a quién comete el fraude sino a quién se pudiese estar intentando engañar, al menos eso con los contenidos creados con IA.
Lo de los autovotos y delegaciones si requiere acciones más solidas que dependen de usuarios con más poder, seguramente con más conocimiento, pero lamentablemete con menos ganas (por ahora).
Podemos hacer que STEEM llegue alto incluso cargando ese peso? algo muy bueno habrá que hacer para ello.
Pero seguimos aquí después de todo. Al menos encontramos algo en qué ocuparnos y de que ser parte mientras envejecemos 😄
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Bueno jovencita, hoy es mi cumpleaños número 40! 🥳🥳🥳🥳
No es bueno Dios? Cuando nací (de 5 meses de embarazo) los médicos dijeron que moriría a los 3 días por ser prematuro, ya llevo 40 años arruinandoles la reputación 😄
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¡Jajaja, no me preguntes qué se me pasó por la cabeza al elegir el gif! Probablemente solo la ilusión de sorprenderte...
Qué bueno saber que incluso los médicos pueden equivocarse por completo con un diagnóstico... 😊
Sea como sea: ¡Feliz cumpleaños redondo! Pasa un día maravilloso con tu familia... 😘
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Por un momento me sorprendí imaginando que lo recordabas, luego no supe interpretar si intentabas defenderte de ese asunto de envejecer (diciendo con el 30 que aún eres joven). Ahora lo tengo claro!
Te he dicho lo increíblemente genial que eres verdad?
Gracias, hace unos minutos respiraba paz y tranquilidad dándole gracias a Dios por lo afortunado que soy.!
Un abrazo.!
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I am glad to hear that things are looking a little brighter and you are feeling a bit more positive. There will always be moments of ups and downs in life. Sometimes, we ask yourselves, is it worth continuing doing what we are doing. And then, there are moments when we feel, things are not as hopeless as they seem.
Take a break when you are feeling stressed. The problems might still be there when you come back, but at least you are rested and you can look a the problems with a fresh pair of eyes and a refreshed spirit.
Keep up the good work. Best wishes to you and Team Europe. Cheers!
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Well, things aren’t quite as bright as our text might make it seem this time...
Still, it always feels good to hear a few encouraging, genuinely positive words like yours. Thanks.
And thanks, too, for recognising and appreciating the real effort behind what we are doing. Cheers... ;-)
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Ah, I see. Still, no harm looking on the bright side, and giving yourself a little boost of positivity. Sometimes, that is all it takes to get us through another day. :-)
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Thak you for the meniton! Much appreciated <3
Hahhaa ;D
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So, who do you really reckon will take the win? Honestly, I've no clue this year (even though I'm interested in cycling, especially the Tour de France). Every now and then, I catch familiar names echoing out loud from the living room...
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Good to notice that you are also following Tour de France! And I think, due to what we know now, that the most actual favorites to win totally are probably: Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel. So, I think it will be a tough and close race to the end between these! Or maybe there will be clearly and obviously differences between them!
Good summer!
Best wishes
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Him... 😎
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I'm going to bookmark this for tomorrow's reading. Thank you for sharing.