Comment by euazOn
18 hours ago
Can somebody brief me on what's people's incentive of posting AI slop on HN? What are they gaining here?
18 hours ago
Can somebody brief me on what's people's incentive of posting AI slop on HN? What are they gaining here?
Farming karma and then selling accounts to spammers and astroturfers. Used to be popular on Reddit, now it's everywhere.
Definitely weird. No new comments from @praveenhm to HN in almost two years and then the first one made is some ChatGPT-generated one.
There's actually a pattern of these accounts that look like they were once real people, who stopped commenting, and multiple years later were necromanced as a spam-zombie. You'll notice it clearly if you start looking at the histories of spammers after you [flag] them.
I've complained several times to the mods about it, so I'm sure they're aware too.
Is it too big a leap for me to assume someone is going around using password spraying or whatever to compromise neglected accounts for use as spam bots?