Will "Bots" ruin online poker? Interestingly enough, both bot writers and online casinos have an interest in underplaying the perception that bots could consistently win against humans. Neither party wants to scare away human customers who provide the source of their incomes.

Reader Mitch Berkson also points out,

...[I]t creates a large financial incentive to create a machine that can pass whatever tests online casinos devise to see whether there is a human on the other end - a big financial incentive to create a machine that can pass the Turing test."