That's quite a few! I also noticed that they sometimes self-close the issue (eg here <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/12032>). Closed after 1 minute, but still flooding my mailbox :D
So you might have more such issues now than you think. Yes, that's probably the case, still going through my mailbox. Op wo 22 jan 2025 om 09:49 schreef Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com>: > Example case: > > * https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/45904 - airflow > * https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/12034 - iceberg > > Both issues are generic and useless and bring 0 value except noise. > > Interesting thing is that many of those users, if you look at their > history - created. similar number of issues in iceberg and airflow about > the same time. So you might have more such issues now than you think. > > J. > > > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> wrote: > >> I have not counted all of them. there are quite a bit too many - and >> other people closed some of them as well. I got a very rudimentary check >> and applied "AI Spam" label to some of the issues >> https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20AI%20label%3A%22AI%20Spam%22. >> -> so we have had at least 25 such issues in the last 12 hours. >> >> > we also want to make sure that we don't accidentally close issues that >> don't come from a bot, but just a newcomer to the project. >> >> Those reports and patterns look very. very human-like - they are reported >> infrequently (per user) the description and text seem legitimate, but they >> are wordy and just reading and understanding that those are completely >> useless takes a lot of time. This is part of the problem, that it takes a >> lot of energy and time to determine if those are valid or not - and with >> such a rate, it's not sustainable just to analyze whether they are good or >> bad. >> >> J. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM Fokko Driesprong <fo...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Hey Jarek, >>> >>> Thanks for bringing this to our attention. When you talk about flooding, >>> how many are we talking about? I see some suspicious issues (eg, here >>> <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/12039>), but not many. I >>> hope this will come to a halt soon because it all additional work, and we >>> also want to make sure that we don't accidentally close issues that don't >>> come from a bot, but just a newcomer to the project. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Fokko >>> >>> Op wo 22 jan 2025 om 09:00 schreef Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com>: >>> >>> > 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. >>> >> > > > > > >> > >>> >> > > > > > >> >>> >> > > > > > > >>> >> > > > > > >>> >> > > > > >>> >> > > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > >>> >> >>> > >>> >>
