from Hacker News

AI Is Spamming Open Source Repos with Fake Issues

by CurtHagenlocher on 2/4/25, 2:37 PM with 4 comments

• by robrtsql on 2/4/25, 3:21 PM

  It's like Hacktober (where a few YouTube assholes showed a bunch of non-developers how to waste maintainer's time with bogus PRs in order to get free stuff from DigitalOcean) except substantially worse because these issues take longer to dismiss. Horrible.

• by Lockal on 2/5/25, 8:24 AM

  Examples: https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20stat...

  Other than the content (which indeed makes no sense), these usually can be recognized by subjective adjectives and polish language[1].

  [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42864854

• by cratermoon on 2/4/25, 3:00 PM

  A related problem has hammered the National Vulnerability Database and similar repos with CVEs, as far back as 2023: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-eve...