The majority of new characters are bots

[Grant_Wilshire]

We have a ton of new leafs on Siren and they're not bots.

I am one of those new leafs.

I haven't run across any of these bots on Siren, but I can understand why Square Enix is hesitant to go after them. It is hard to regulate, not a lot of return value if they get rid of then, and they are there because of the market for illegal money (so the real players are causing this issue). Do they cause issues other than perhaps making waits longer? I guess it would stink to get grouped with them in a duty finder now that I think about it.