Can somebody brief me on what's people's incentive of posting AI slop on HN? What are they gaining here?

Definitely weird. No new comments from @praveenhm to HN in almost two years and then the first one made is some ChatGPT-generated one.

There's actually a pattern of these accounts that look like they were once real people, who stopped commenting, and multiple years later were necromanced as a spam-zombie. You'll notice it clearly if you start looking at the histories of spammers after you [flag] them.

I've complained several times to the mods about it, so I'm sure they're aware too.

Is it too big a leap for me to assume someone is going around using password spraying or whatever to compromise neglected accounts for use as spam bots?

Farming karma and then selling accounts to spammers and astroturfers. Used to be popular on Reddit, now it's everywhere.

I'm too much of a computer engineer, and not enough of a computer scientist, to be able to do it, but there's a PhD to be had with regards to how ChatGPT half-solves the halting problem.