Everyone is free to reply to a bot, and I do that sometimes with news articles, but it's sometimes clear that those people don't realize they're replying to a bot. 

 I also see the value in being able to filter and pull-together news feeds and infobots in a separate client-channel.
Sometimes I actually just want to see what Zerohedge is writing and what the weather prediction is, but I wake up to 193 posts, and they're somewhere in there.
On the other hand, I am sometimes reluctant to subscribe to bots I'm interested in because they can be prolific and they drown out the real posters.

This would allow for an entirely different client to be built. 

 I have this problem too. I wish I could "follow" npubs into multiple different lists, but as far as I can tell Amethyst doesn't do this yet. Do any other clients? 

 You have to hand-curate your lists on listr.lol or similar, and then they show up in Amethyst and other clients as a drop-down box over the feed or whatever. Where "following" is. Following is also just a special list, after all. 

 What I'm suggesting, is that the profile creator can express the differentation clearly, of their own volition. To allow for a different use case (filtering/categorization).

That allows for them to have a

Lyn Alden 🤖  npub19taxhhc7a7xs60ct6gh26sdhnaqcdq84zzcmaduqvzgqrjqct4dsat7eyn

and a 

Lyn Alden 👩 
npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a 

 nostur fixes this w/ custom feeds, its like lists on twitter, you can put npubs in custom lists youll see their posts and you dont even have to follow them, best thing is nobody else can see your feeds (stays in your device/s) tied to your icloud