Is it just bot generated titles and text as well, 0 humans involved in the entire process?

Most likely this. Fully automatic slop machine that just checks what has the best "engagement" and produces that, so naturally loads of rage bait.

Presumably this is all for ad revenue. If a single profile can get few dollars a day you just run a few hundred. It's the same premise behind mmo gold farm bots, where they're not terribly efficient and don't last long before getting banned, but it's still profitable because of the scale and minimal amount of human labor involved.

I forget who it was but I listened to an interview with someone who runs such an account a while back, and there's basically no thought behind it besides mashing keywords together and seeing what gets clicks. The person running the accounts lived in India I think, so even a few dollars of ad revenue made the whole thing worth it to him.

I'd imagine a lot of it is due to the fact that these AI Slop bots have years of similar social media slop to train on.

I hate the idea that it's jokes on you, you just spent 10 minutes trying to empathize with a computer program.

It's because the viewer is presented with an injustice that can be corrected easily by clicking the like and share buttons; instant dopamine for the utterly foolish.

You create a page on any website, get as many likes and follows as you can this way, farm that shit out, sell it, gets turned into Hasbara factory or some shit, repeat.

There's also a lot of posts with pictures of a half-built deck, or plumbing, or whatever and a caption like, "what did my contractor do wrong?" or "I say this is the way it's done if you disagree you're fired off my jobsite!"

I think it's rage bait for blue collar boomers. I have no idea what purpose it actually serves financially.

Here's an example. I keep a burner FB account because it's the only website a bunch of local businesses and communities use, and it's infested with this shit. Why?

what if the bot itself is sympathy baiting

I'm imagining Skinner's VA delivering the line "whirring computer noises" rather than an actual sound effect

They upgraded from running local stable diffusion shrimp jesus to gemini shrimp jesus.

Is that Jim Tews over there?