Well he veered off of the technical and into the personal so I'm not surprised it's dead. But yeah something feels weird about this comment section as a whole but I can't quite put my finger on it.

I think rather than AI it reminds me of when (long before AI) a few colleagues would converge on an article to post supportive comments in what felt like an attempt to manipulate the narrative and even at concentrations that I find surprisingly low it would often skew my impression of the tone of the entire comment section in a strange way. I guess you could more generally describe the phenomenon as fan club comments.