What's the endgame of the AI comments buried in every post?

Question

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 ?

cesargstn · Accepted Answer

I think that to generate activity and make the post go viral

smt88 · Answer

Account &ldquo;seasoning,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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.

michael-lehn · Answer

To get some upvote, to increase karma