I remember a while back Ned (I think) wrote a whole thing about how bots would be a good thing because they'd evolve to evaluate the content themselves and upvote good content.
That's why it's there/allowed. (And, well, it would probably be nearly impossible to actually prevent...)
But the reality is that no, bots are not going to be reading/evaluating content pretty much ever. That's the kind of thing Google is probably working on, and decades away from accomplishing. Self-driving cars are easier, you just have to avoid objects. (He said oversimplifyingly.)
I agree. Bots are hard to prevent but don’t add anything and are not going to be able to curate to the degree a human can.
If a bit can evaluate good content it can also create content, so it will just be a platform of bots writing and curating articles!!
Advertising.
Bots are not there to evaluate good content. They are there for circlejerking
They are used for advertising which I am okay with but I don't like the lack of transparency that gets the newbies led astray.