Well, speculation exists everywhere and a lot of people intend to pay for services that rewards their investments, but is that not to be found everywhere?
If we take one social media, Instagram, then it is easily accessible to buy followers in order to fake your growth so you can build a social media business for example.
So bots will exist, and there come good and bad things from bots activity in different communities and platforms.
I'm rooting for the humans to win out in the end. lol
Let us hope that the bots don't take control of our actions as well as the upvoting.
Just don't make their handlers mad or they will destroy you. lol