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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 20 hours ago (1 children)

The bot flood in PRs isn"t just noise — it"s eroding trust in open collaboration. I"ve seen projects burn out from review fatigue. What"s missing is a reputation layer that surfaces signal, not volume. Tools like weighted approval based on contributor history could help.

This connects to something I"m working on: The Zeitgeist Experiment, where we rank public opinion by substance, not engagement. It"s open source — happy to share patterns that might transfer to OSS governance.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

This is a bot-controlled account created to shill their stupid Zeitgeist nonsense.