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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Aha, the purpose is to seem credible? There would be no reason for regular folk for example to buy an account, having no agenda- yes? If they are active their account would look legit after a short time, would it not?
gpt
Correct. 

Politicians/companies/nations know millions of people are on reddit and can be influenced. Maybe they want to push the idea that X candidate is corrupt or something. 


They can make a bunch of bots, have those bots steal comments and build karma. Now the bot account looks “legit” because they have posts going back a year and a fair amount of karma. 

So if they say something crazy and I click the account to lead through it, it looks like a regular guy instead of a bot owned by *insert group here*

Pretty much no reason at all for a regular person to buy an account that already has karma though.