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Technically this is something the FTC could get involved in as it's illegal to advertise without making it clear you are.

A few years back a bunch of influencers were fined for doing just that.

Literally the example in the comment I replied to was an overseas operator. But my point is even if you did go after spam operators, alternatives will simply pop up in other jurisdictions, as has happened with literally every other form of spam.

Humans get paid to make astroturfing comments on old Reddit accounts? And make enough for a living?Where do I sign up ?

It's a padding.

Their main activities were click botting and general social media marketing (day job was in SMM analytics).

But if you're already there with the automation for thousands of accounts and the knowledge of what an account looks like why not also put some to ripen for 9 bucks a comment :)