it also makes it a lot harder for skeptics taking a look at their account to reveal they’re a bot. When every post is a clear copy and paste but mixed with comments that seem legitimate it takes more digging that’s just not worth doing
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Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
They’re not just “casually” stealing comments. They steal a random comment from the video, then have a bunch of other bots give it a bunch of thumbs up so that it appears towards the top and accumulates more upvotes than most human comments make. 95% of the time it seems, the real comment has one or two upvotes and is buried so far you have to scroll multiple pages to reach it.
smokebuddy@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
The names and PFPs still give it away if you know about them.
0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’ve also seen a comment where other bots argued with themselves in the replies and ended up recommending a scam.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I don’t often invest in a 401k but when I do I use shady services recommended to me by bots.