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porkshoe • yesterday at 10:30 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Some bots are trying to influence conversations on some topic, and they comment on neutral topics to build up karma or whatever.

Also, some people are weirdos.


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qlte • yesterday at 11:33 PM

Disproportionate number of the "weirdos" category on this particular site vs astroturf marketing bots on Reddit/etc.

I've lost count of how many times I've clicked into a bio from a flagged, obviously LLM written comment to find some variation of "Building new AI tools for agentic devops"...