I agree with closing lines. If someone wanted to run an AI and take there chances with people, I am all about it. 

It seems more like double dipping though. Someone controls several accounts, or their voting power, and is not happy with curation rewards (low liquidity) and so they decide to take advantage of the system. All they require is something reasonably ***human*** sounding.

I wonder (early speculation) if it wouldn't be better to have author rewards be pure SP and curation rewards geared to liquidity. It would at a quick mental run-through appear to make curation a more desirable goal. Authors would choose to power down earlier than they otherwise might, but as long as the content is good they should be able to build up what is depleted weekly.

Just the math here. My vote is worth $200 $150 is to the author and $50 is my curation reward. My curation is pure SP, but the author gets 50/50 so $75 is liquid and can be cashed out at 24 hours. If the $50 curation was liquid, well, less SBD is distributed (something looked at now anyway) and the author is vested in the future of the site. 

Early thoughts, but I think it changes something