Comment by kraig911

> What goal would an AI writing crap responses on reddit/hacker news/what not have to even need to comment?

Obviously the AI itself doesn't have any goal (that matters anyways), but the humans/organizations that set it up obviously have a lot to gain. Accounts of age/above karma thresholds are treated less suspiciously, so if you build up N accounts that way, eventually when you launch your product, each manufactured comment looks less fake as the accounts are already "established" at that point.

This is nothing new, been going on for decades already. Guess the scope kind of expanded and the required effort went down a lot these last few years though.