It's automatically generated, but not ML, it's just scraping together other sources, likely from a Google search. If you look at their comment history and just

It's automatically generated, but not ML, it's just scraping together other sources, likely from a Google search. If you look at their comment history and just pop some sentences into Google with quotes, you'll find the sources. Depending on when Google picks up HN-threads for more obscure topics, the bot will also copy parts of comments from the very same thread it's commenting on, e.g. here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26841134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26841134