I'm new to steemit, the presence and acceptance of bots surprised me at first. I thought such a thing would be a huge problem. But sweeping up remaining power appears to be a legitimate use case. Also, just as market maker bots can provide liquidity to an order book, I suppose these bots provide exposure and return for new and underappreciated authors. As long as the "game" prevents autovoting from taking over, it's a fascinating approach.

I wonder about the potentials of deep learning here. Can a deep learning curation bot learn from it's trainer what quality content looks like? Does that provide a valuable service to other steem users that might get missed by manual curation?