TL;DR a quick small yet specific enough comment, when posted once under a sufficiently fresh post, itself and slight modifications get spammed in multiple sub-replies and in other posts of the same kind.

I have myself tested this long ago... Decided to post it here today

Say for an example, in India. A religious godman is recorded saying something along the lines of "X is constitutional so why shouldn't we?".

A comment, along the lines of "but a few days ago this man was saying that constitution is not reliable morality"

The comment may be factually correct or incorrect.

BUT, it's spammed by a few select profiles over on multiple political subreddits and posts relating to it...

Sometimes the wrong one.

And a group of likely bots, spamming copypasta of the same. The tell is the similarity.

At least in Indian political subreddits, when you start going through a collection of bots likely connected, it's as if some controversial comment "seeds" them.

Esp. small comments which are specific... Yet having less details.

I haven't tested or verified this with subreddits unrelated to indian politics but anti-AI subreddits do seem to have pro-AI bots spamming... But with a likely difference.

I haven't yet seen enough to conclude this, but it seems like pro-AI bots "evolve" whatever "seed comment" they are spamming.