People need to speak up and not to do something without explanation

I don't know how much (or little) communication took place between the two, and I don't want to speculate.

What I am missing is a statement from @xpilar.witness resp. @xpilar. I just checked both accounts, no post, no comment on the matter. Why is he silent? Maybe he's offline over the weekend, would be ok, just now of all times a statement from him would be very helpful.

I don't understand why he didn't inform the community before launching the bot. Many users thought the comments were genuine and written by him. So, unfortunately, I see this as a false pretence.

It's all a shame, because I assume that he didn't deliberately want to deceive anyone. Probably all well-intentioned, but unfortunately, sorry, badly done.

In any case, I really hope he stays with us, from a programming point of view it was an outstanding achievement.