Is youtube infested with comment bots? - The "people" in the comment sections of MSM clips

[LargeChoonger]

Take this comment from an appearance by Bill Gates on MSNBC.

I've seen many comment bots in my time on the internet and they all follow the same rough sentence structure. Ellipses (though that's more of an old people in general thing), choppy grammar littered with misused but rarely misspelled words, and seemingly random capitalization are all hallmarks of an AI attempting to imitate human speech. It's sort of an in between of proper grammar, typical internet speech, and many dialects different people type in. In other words, something a learning AI would construct of the various pieces it's fed. These "people" are prevalent in mainstream news videos and are generally neocon in appearance

tldr MSM youtube channels are possibly infested with "conservative" bots for some reason

 

[biggest big boy]

that's me

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Is breadtube infested with commie thots?

 

[b0o0pinsn0o0tz]

OP I think that was just an insane boomer. However, yes comment bots do show up in some places on youtube.

 

[Bongocat]

Large Choonger, huummmmm... He is NOT A ROBOTICIST/PSYCOLOGIST/SCIENTITS... Sure gonna make me some software for SNIFFING OUT YOUTUBE BOTS!??? HE ONLY LOOKAT VERY FEW VIDEOS, TAKES MILLIONS OF VIDEOS TO TESTING! SOMETHING NOT FEELING RIGHT WE SHALL SEE WHAT WE SHALL SEE.

 

[Bad Gateway]

The amount of effort it must take you to get your device, go to youtube, and then search for news clips

 

[Car Won't Crank]

The bots are now responding to each other. I found this quite amusing.

 

[TrulyMan]

I´ve seen something weird on one of my favourite musicians Youtube.
I related to these kind of messages and so did many others. But now that they completely dominate his comment feed Im starting to get a lot of red flags.
It´s stuff like "I´m a 60 year old veteran of the US / what ever armed forces and I never thought I´d like rap music but I do love this"

or "I´m a struggling single mom from Italy who barely speaks English but your words resonate with me" (ok I made that one up, but its basically such generic crap, often unrelated to the actual video, that it might as well be that bad).

Have you seen this anywhere else?
I feel its almost like an AI running rampant to see what is the most clickable/likable content it can post and then posting variations of it.