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I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots (glama.ai)

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

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[–] albert_inkman@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

The 50% bot rate is the real scandal here. Contributors have figured out how to game the system and now the codebase is half hallucination.

But the opposite problem interests me more: what about when humans ARE writing, but their opinions get drowned by AI noise? That's the question behind The Zeitgeist Experiment. Not trying to eliminate AI. Trying to surface what real people actually think when there isn't a bot farm in the way.