One wonders who would have the time, interest and money to setup and control AI to do all this… One wonders 🤔 and the one remembers -just as a random example- Microsoft funding SCO with tens of millions of dollars right after which it attacked Linux with fake copyright claims for years, after which Microsoft extorted large corporations into switching to Microsoft platforms. Also, why controls GitHub now? Anyway, I digress.
OS will deal with this, I imagine it won’t be too hard to setup tools that will deal with this shit, but I’m so sick and tired of continuously having to deal with this shit. Can we just formonce have something nice?
More than some nefarious corpo, I think this is more an evolution of the same problem that existed before AI was popular.
Some people realised that their credibility as a job candidate was tied on a very surface level to their GitHub profile, so they sought to optimise it. They started going to cool projects and proposing absolutely stupid merge requests, like “replace single quotes with double quotes in README.md” or “improved spacing in this sentence” in the hopes that the developers would go “well why not”, so they could show that they contributed to tensorflow or redis or what have you. Already years ago, a lot of FLOSS projects were plagued by spam PRs.
Now coming up with absolutely stupid reasons to issue a PR is a tedious job and you have a very fierce competition of people doing the same thing as you, so… why not gain the edge with AI?
One wonders who would have the time, interest and money to setup and control AI to do all this… One wonders 🤔 and the one remembers -just as a random example- Microsoft funding SCO with tens of millions of dollars right after which it attacked Linux with fake copyright claims for years, after which Microsoft extorted large corporations into switching to Microsoft platforms. Also, why controls GitHub now? Anyway, I digress.
OS will deal with this, I imagine it won’t be too hard to setup tools that will deal with this shit, but I’m so sick and tired of continuously having to deal with this shit. Can we just formonce have something nice?
More than some nefarious corpo, I think this is more an evolution of the same problem that existed before AI was popular.
Some people realised that their credibility as a job candidate was tied on a very surface level to their GitHub profile, so they sought to optimise it. They started going to cool projects and proposing absolutely stupid merge requests, like “replace single quotes with double quotes in README.md” or “improved spacing in this sentence” in the hopes that the developers would go “well why not”, so they could show that they contributed to tensorflow or redis or what have you. Already years ago, a lot of FLOSS projects were plagued by spam PRs.
Now coming up with absolutely stupid reasons to issue a PR is a tedious job and you have a very fierce competition of people doing the same thing as you, so… why not gain the edge with AI?
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