Currently there are at least 2 guaranteed upvotes by bots.
The value that they give out is marginal compared to some of the whale dolphins around here, but that doesn't change the fact that these bots are literally giving free money away. Currently it's not even close to anything substantial, but yet one question still floats around and that is:
If the computer pays us, who pays the computer?
All I see is that every bot gets downvoted. But if they are the ones, that pay us in the future. Who pays them? It's not like we should upvote every bot who upvotes us. But more of a bot makers should either be rich themselves or make an innovative enough bot so that we would actually want to upvote these bots.
Answer, we all do!
We pay even the most incompetent robots via upvoting anyone on the platform. Since we're all mining for new tokens here and 90% of these tokens are spread among everyone on the platform. So that means even the most incompetent bots get payed depending on their ammount of stake in the system.