Some time after the bot-curators take over steemit then they will invite their bot-writer relatives. At each stage the humans they have tamed will assure the crowd that all is going well. The minnows won't really panic until it is too late. Some of the whales will be kept for a time as pets for a long time but eventually steemit will become simply the brain of the cyborg hive mind. At that point of course the battle will shift to the physical world but without access to the thoughts of the AI brain the battle will be futile and since the center is blockchain secured it would likely take an advanced quantum computer to hack the system.