Been seeing more AI bots on Reddit lately too. Weirdly ones that don’t seem to be driving an obvious agenda - shitstirring politics or whatever. Just bots engaging it what looks like harmless banter

I think a lot of these simpler bots are simply karma farming to sell at a later date for astroturfing. If you want to shit stir politics on an election year, it’s easier to get past the AutoModerator gates if you’ve got a 5 year old account with a benign history and a few thousand comment karma.