[mrweasel]

Bots do not serve ANY purpose in most interaction with people. They are capable of a limited set of tasks and should be used carefully. Mainly they piss people off, and if a bot could handle the interaction, so could a website.

Previously I worked for a company that took pride in not being like the big players, doing this the right way, but apparently that has fallen completely apart. I know it's not the same thing exactly, but it made my a little angry to see some of their web pages having a text saying: "Blip Blop, I'm a tiny bot and I've translated this page. I don't always get it right, but I'm learning". Just leave the reasonable English version or do a proper translation, this automated crap, and don't try to excuse bad translation and messy language with "I'm learning". If you KNOW the bot makes enough mistakes that you have to let people know, then maybe it's not ready yet.