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Bots that spam or "help" > No No bot is going to be able to help every individual the way they need to be helped. Same issue with plenty of "convenience" features in Microsoft products which quickly become an annoyance. Spam is self-explanatory.
Bots that entertain > Maybe in some communities I have seen some quality use of bots for entertainment purposes, especially on meme subs. My favorite use of bots which I have seen is the old subreddit simulator sub which is populated entirely by bots with each bot trained by a popular sub, leading to some very entertaining interactions. The second use I've enjoyed was their use on prequel memes, in which bots would react with certain text with the appropriate meme response. I'm not sure bots exactly like these would fit anywhere on Beehaw, but I wouldn't mind in some communities like Jokes if there was a good one.
Bots for artistic purposes > I'd like to see them as long as they don't post too often The main example I can think of is Tumblr's Haikubot which is amazing. If someone happens to post a message with the same structure as a haiku poem, the bot will reply with that post re-formatted as a haiku poem which can be amusing and occasionally profound. I would be ok with the general use of bots like this as long as their parameters don't allow them to show up often enough to become tiresome.