I at least vaguely get the idea of having law enforcement one-on-one message people who might be planning crimes. Well, I think it should be handled with a lot of care and documentation (I mean there’s a lot of risk of entrapment with this sort of stuff, right?), but at least it is possible that it could be done in a manner than is not a net negative.
Having a bot to help radicalize people on a public, open site like Reddit seems pretty bad, though. Isn’t it more likely to produce an environment of radicalization?
I think that is why it was such a contentious topic. Bots inciting people on public forums is obviously very different from sting operations in small chat groups.
I can not conceive what the point would be, if not radicalizing the population.