Hey Iceberg community, And Airflow community too. As of yesterday Airflow repo is literally flooded with a number of issues that look almost good, except they are clearly AI generated and make no sense or repeat content from other issues. We noticed that the users who create a lot of the "spam AI" issues that are created in Airflow are also creating similar issues for Iceberg.
We got to the point that we are closing and reporting such issues to GitHub and we are blocking all such users without spending too much time on it with messages similar to this: ``` This looks totally AI-generated. useless issue report that brings no value and makes no sense. We are generally blocking users that sends a lot of spam AI reports generated by bots.. as of yesterday so we will report your account and block it unless: a) you explain how you generated reports b) prove you are human c) explain why you created the issue ``` My guess is that some company released and is testing an "agentic AI" that is "github-targeted" - where people can run the AI agents on their behalf. It does not look like regular bot-spam. I think we should all generally crowd-source reporting it to Github - and hopefully they will find a way to battle those without involving maintainers. I hope it will not last too long. J. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> Date: Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM Subject: Re: Very strange (AI generated) issues To: <d...@airflow.apache.org> You can also report it directly from the issue (... at the top and "report content") On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM Amogh Desai <amoghdesai....@gmail.com> wrote: > Elad, I just managed to report this user. > > This is how its done: > > https://docs.github.com/en/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/reporting-abuse-or-spam#reporting-a-user > > Thanks & Regards, > Amogh Desai > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM Elad Kalif <elad...@apache.org> wrote: > > > There are several reports from this user > > > > https://github.com/atharv9017 > > > > > > I didnt find a way to report the user account to github. > > > > בתאריך יום ד׳, 22 בינו׳ 2025, 06:41, מאת Pavankumar Gopidesu < > > gopidesupa...@gmail.com>: > > > > > Yes, still issues are coming. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Pavan > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM Amogh Desai <amoghdesai....@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I saw a couple of such SPAM issues too. > > > > > > > > I also recall some SPAM comments on pull requests as well, so if any > > > > contributor sees any such SPAM message, > > > > please report it on Slack so that we can delete it and report it. > > > > > > > > Thanks & Regards, > > > > Amogh Desai > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM Zhe You Liu <zhu424....@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I came across another strange issue: > > > > > https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/45837. It appears to be a > > > > > copy-paste of https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/45661 with > > just > > > > the > > > > > issue title changed. > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 6:50 AM Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I even got to this stage: > > > > > > > > > > > > > We've received a few new tickets from your account recently. If > > > you'd > > > > > > like to add additional information you can add a comment to an > > > existing > > > > > > ticket, or wait a few minutes before opening a new ticket. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > There are few more that I still saw after sending it. There is > > > > > something > > > > > > > going on bypassing GitHub filters. I hope they will manage to > do > > > > > > something > > > > > > > about it > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Last one is https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/45867 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM Vikram Koka > > > > > > <vik...@astronomer.io.invalid> > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> Agreed. > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> Thanks for flagging these Jarek! > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM Jarek Potiuk < > ja...@potiuk.com> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > Seems that we have a flood of AI generated feature requests > > for > > > > > > Airflow, > > > > > > >> > The issues look somewhat legitimate, with somewhat related > > > > content, > > > > > > but > > > > > > >> > they are wordy and make no sense when you read them. Some > > > > examples: > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > * https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/45858 > > > > > > >> > * https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/45856 > > > > > > >> > * https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/45854 > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > All of them done by accounts with short history in GH and > not > > > much > > > > > > >> activity > > > > > > >> > before > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > There were quite a few more. > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > I suggest we close such issues AND report authors to GitHub > - > > > > > > hopefully > > > > > > >> we > > > > > > >> > can help to battle the AI-generated traffic flood. > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > J. > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
