Ask HN: What's the endgame of the AI comments buried in every post?
3•elar_verole•47m ago
A lot of submissions nowadays have a few LLM comments (whether directly written by an agent, or human with a LLM I don't know), often downvoted and sitting at the end of the comment section. No-one even bothers to call them out anymore, it's just part of the landscape.
Just wondering why ? What's the point for these people ?
Comments
smt88•38m ago
Account “seasoning,” similar to reddit.
They create an account and give it as human-like a history as possible (a few comments, enough time since registration that it doesn’t look brand new).
Then they sell it to whoever will buy it. This could be content marketers who want to promote a product, nation-states who want to influence Western voters, etc.
vuggamie•25m ago
I hope I never run across any of those sketchy websites that buy user accounts. Can you give me a list so I can add them to my blocked domains? Opsec is key.
cesargstn•38m ago
I think that to generate activity and make the post go viral
smt88•38m ago
They create an account and give it as human-like a history as possible (a few comments, enough time since registration that it doesn’t look brand new).
Then they sell it to whoever will buy it. This could be content marketers who want to promote a product, nation-states who want to influence Western voters, etc.
vuggamie•25m ago