alt Hacker NewsPR spam is a major problems for repo that run bounties. Maybe GitHub should temporarily block accounts from raising PRs if like 95%+ of them are getting rejected.
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hiccuphippo • today at 4:01 PM
GitHub has not incentive for blocking AI. It's like asking an ad company to build an adblocker into their browser.
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marginalx • today at 3:58 PM
Problem is the bots can create any number of github accounts and continue spamming. Though this would be a good simple defense to start with.
cdrnsf • today at 4:07 PM
GitHub and Microsoft are actively contributing to the problem, why would they admit fault?
I feel like GitHub should have a system where you can give out tokens that are valid for e.g. 1 PR. If someone shows to engage in meaningful discussion and has a good idea to address an issue/feature, you initially give them one PR token. If the PR is of good quality, you can give them a few more, until they are contributors that can just create PRs as they like.
A similar system would be nice for issues, though I'm not sure what it'd look like if issues are the springboard for contributing PRs.
Not likely to ever happen (as others said), GitHub/MS want to sell CoPilot subscriptions/tokens and LLM-generated PRs are a part of that business model.