[b1gnasty]

What's with the comment section. Has anyone else noticed more and more word-salad-AI-bots in comment sections? To what end are ppl building and deploying these things?

"Nice someone replied, we can make the debate hot and up the discussion. I saw, maybe, with defined purpose, to motivate me to participate, people kidding with de Funny Balloons the Condom, so, if I could elaborate a campaingn, (Please don't get me in touch with politicians, prefer tech tycoons, movies tycoons....). Anyways, returning, I would elaborate a campaingn with a "kids kit" with real fun balloons, trying to avoid, the people use the Condom to fun. If people use the Condom to fun, the real utility get lost. Resume: LOL; Campaing, explaining about don't use Condom to other purposes. If can the involved combine the 2 pratices? The Condom, besides the female, so usefull, indispensable in fact but, I guess, with any Medical or public health formation, injectable, more effective and some, 3 months of safety. Doing the math maybe a little expensive for governments, 3 to 3 months, the women getting a injection, vacine. Maybe doing the math, more efective to try to resolve the populational growth without control. We have to remember the following. Abbandoned people, in anyway tend to search for bad things. Crimes, drugs, go out home, etc. I see some times, rich people abbandoned, so, maybe, worth to think what is more expensive for the system. A correct, effective born control or the troubles caused with the excess of sons or not structured families. Many questions need to be checked. Religion, Value, if worth, ages, fertility, anyways, it's a multi disciplin debate. Health workers, politicians, activists, companies, government, technology, my old area, is the less useful and THERE ARE A LOT OF SOLUTIONS READY."

[tlb]

To me, that reads like stream-of-consciousness comment by a non-native speaker, not a bot. It's civil, so it would fall in the top half of YouTube comments, but it doesn't make a substantive point so it would get flagged on HN.

A large number of people can't write a comment with a clear thesis and supporting arguments. Most college grads can, but most of the world hasn't gone to college.

There is lots of crap in the comments section of blogs of famous people, because lots of people want to think "I spent the morning schooling Bill Gates!" A wiser person might prefer to be schooled by Bill Gates.

[PhasmaFelis]

It reads like someone may also be posting in snippets from Google Translate when they didn't know the proper English phrase, or at least abusing a dictionary/thesaurus.

[lxmorj]

Whatever it's supposed to mean, it's a memetic success. And you've helped it propagate!

[village-idiot]

Memes do not use birth control.

[InitialLastName]

What's crazy is that they also tag on a post-comment * to correct something they said, which means they read it through at least once and it made sense to them.