Unless of course the benefits of the bot rewards outrank the benefit of the curation scheme.
Sadly for auto upvotes bots, the money will always be better than a human curated system. In the prior the user is paying a premium for a guaranteed vote, so they get the payment and the curation bonus. But it does cause a lot of drama when rubbish gets to over paid. In the latter users are only charged a viewing fee with no guarantee of a vote, but those whom's Steem Power has been used get to sleep well at night knowing they are only rewarding quality. I'd like to believe that there are at least a few whales that are more concerned for the long term health of Steemit and the value of Steem, as apposed to maximum profits in the present, at the expense of steem's value in the future.