This South Parka episode sums it up pretty well (I couldn’t find the actual episode, so here is someone talking about it): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bbu-1fSB__o
They plan to take over the world. First, they will simply post adds. Then, they will begin to take on a human form. Before long, half of the world’s population will have been replaced with bots and adds. Eventually, they will be finding OUR posts and pointing them out to other bots…
Thanks, will do when I'm infront of a machine that isn't my phone. I wonder if the logic of the patrol mechanism could work for this. I don't know how the resource acquisition would work though. Haven't thought it through that carefully.