How a hidden prompt injection in CONTRIBUTING.md revealed that 40% of pull requests to a popular GitHub repository were generated by AI bots

Relevant since we started outright rejecting agent-made PRs in awesome-selfhosted [1] and issuing bans for it. Some PRs made in good faith could probably get caught in the net, but it’s currently the only decent tradeoff we could make to absorb the massive influx of (bad) contributions. >99.9% of them are invalid for other reasons anyway. Maybe a good solution will emerge over time.

  • TheHolm@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Then read my post again. Contributing and writing opens source is no longer about how much time one willing to spend on it, it is about how much money someone willing to spend on LLMs which will write code. And all these money will go to AI overlords.