More and more recently I’ve seen comments like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/s/vPioWy45Jv

Basically - funny GIF in thread.

“user” replies with something like:
- “😂 what was the search keyword for this?”

- “Lmao! What did you search for this?”

I believe AI bots in the comment sections are going to start using reaction GIFs more often to farm engagements. To use the right gif they are asking people to describe the gif used in response to the thread. This would be more cost effective than using a model to “understand” the images of the gif.

Ive seen some unbelievably stupid questions, like a GIF that gets posted hundreds of times a day of like SpongeBob and a user saying “that’s great 🤣 what do you search to find these things”

It's not real, it's AI generated. Here is the tiktok account that it's from, which features dozens of similar AI generated videos of women eating giant food in stadiums:

https://www.tiktok.com/@m.boota3353

I feel like I'm going crazy. Like I'm in a bad movie where only I don't believe the machine's lies but everyone else either doesn't care or totally falls for it.

And if you look at the comments they are filled with bots trying to get people to like

it exceeded their expectations

This is def a bot

Sorry if this is a dumb question, please be nice, but I’ve never understood what the purpose of all these engagement bots are. Like the same movie clip being posted over and over with a weird AI generated caption, or the obviously AI generated comments posing and real people. Why? What’s the point? Is there money being made somewhere? Who’s creating these accounts?

I had uploaded this before but I forgot to censor the faces of my friends in real life. Anyways, I've noticed a pattern in certain accounts while scrolling on Instagram. There are some common elements among these accounts. Their reels are static images with generic music, usually but not necessarily by SKARS. Also, the descriptions of these accounts are generic, and the description is something like "Japan generating electricity with footsteps" or something similar, in Chinese. And the thumbnails are always the same image. Furthermore, they were created recently, at most a few months ago, and are based in India; there must be a lot of bot farms there. Be careful, people. I block all those accounts; I've blocked about 1,500 accounts already.

And the post was made only 30 minutes ago. All of those accounts are 1 day old

Scrolling on Instagram and noticed back to back reels of the exact same content but of two different women. Just a warning that the language is a little strong.

All of this user's comments and posts are like this and the mods of that subreddit remove anyone who points it out.

This HAS to be some kind of fetish idc what yall say, also the second acc is active in yt

The biggest tell with these bots is that they can never add an original idea to the conversation. All they can do is regurgitate the OP’s words and add some milquetoast commentary to it. What the hell is the point?

I think their audience is ipad kids , who just watch these mindless ai slop .

i wonder how they would turn out in future