What's the point of doing that?

Every now and then, topics on HN are being brigaded by (among others) such accounts. But to do that effectively, you need to build a sizeable amount of accounts with some karma, and I think that's what is tried here with an LLM.

Last time I was very suspicious about the discussion, was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809866 Lots of comments from new-ish accounts.

Eroding our sanity little by little, perhaps.

There are several accounts doing this now. People are weird, who knows why they do stupid things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alan-jordan13 This one has been shadowbanned, for another example.

I could ask the same thing about many human commenters with irrelevant or as-predictable-as-a-robot talking points.

At least that question has the possible answer of "an attempt, however misguided, at human connection".

Yeah but those make sense. They're trying to connect in a safe way.

But to have an account that just automatically replies with obvious LLM answers? I don't see a point to that is what I'm saying.