I've been noticing this a lot more often here. And everywhere. I'd like it if I could flag accounts as definitely or likely AI so I don't bother parsing them out over and over.

I guess I could build a browser extension to allow for that easily enough.

Yes, it most likely is. Click on the "x hours ago" and then flag the comment. That's the best way I've found to deal with these.

Whats the point of all that? I guess at some point you hope to amass enough "quality" accounts to sway opinion on products? It makes more direct sense on Facebook et al or Reddit, but I guess on HN you're doing the same thing.

Botting HN is probably actually more effective as the audience is smaller, probably by several magnitudes? So 20 pro-product comments in a thread is more likely to hit an investors eyeball?

I find this form you're commenting on less annoying than people starting posts with "this." What a stupid way to say "I agree."

Yeah, those other comments also have an AI vibe. The LLM bots are getting better.

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