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I agree with the reading a lot because I feel that the bigger issue is not necessarily that bots exist, but that we may eventually have a lot of trouble knowing whether the content and interactions we see online are actually coming from real people. If we users can't tell what is human and what is from a bot, it could change how much we trust information and even how we understand social media itself. When surfacing the web even now, we don't know what is completely real and it's important to stay cautious on social media.