All it does is respond to the title. sometimes that works out for it…sometimes its horrible. Just a tiny bit down, check the old school cool. down in the comment graveyard is another number name one doing the exact same thing.

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    Reddit bots comments do not always have to make sense. The bots likely quickly delete downvoted comments to stop the karma bleed and rely on only a few of them be upvoted to get that sweet sweet karma.

    This was how the previous generation of Reddit bots - comment thieves - worked.

    I wonder if there are already hybrids that steal and rephrase other comments using GenAI instead of just responding to the post title?

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      I wonder if there are already hybrids that steal and rephrase other comments using GenAI i

      Have to be. There were rephrase bots before LLMs even, they just changed a few key words like “argument” would become “fight”.

      Whoever made them would definitely think of this.

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        I chased comment thieves with a script that called them out for a while, so I noticed those everywhere and started learning their behaviour patterns.

        Unlike comment thieving bots, rephrasing bots could be difficult/expensive to detect. But at least if they use GenAI they are also expensive to run. (If they use a simple substitution, they are detectable, although it would take some work I guess. Fun work though).