Here is the article in The New Stack:
https://thenewstack.io/ai-is-spamming-open-source-repos-with-fake-issues/
On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM Jarek Potiuk wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I am at FOSDEM now but I have some progress and more information about the
> whole stuf:
>
> Some facts first (without a
Extending the issue template is an option, but let's be aware of downsides
and let's make sure we believe it's net positive (also outside of current
situation).
Some people (and bots) will overlook the checkboxes. If "I am a human" is
not checked, do we auto-reject the issue?
Some people will noti
What about extending the issue templates?
Because of a growing problem with worthless LLM-generated issues, github
MAY terminate any account doing this to our project
[ ] I am a human being and am not creating AI generated issues.
[ ] I accept that if I am posting AI-generated issues, my github ac
Hey,
I am at FOSDEM now but I have some progress and more information about the
whole stuf:
Some facts first (without any judgment from my side):
* my posts in social media reached many, many people (thanks to you -
posting it and people from other foundations) - the reach out is amazing -
more
Are these issues being manually created?
maybe add a new checkbox
[ ] I am not participating in any AI training/experiment and if it turns
out that I am -I agree to compensate developers for the time wasted.
Or have something to specifically handle new posters., or at least
automatically flag th
FYI. My friend - who is an engineering manager at GitHub in the "AI" space
- saw my post and reached out to their internal team fighting with Spam. I
hope they will be able to do something about it as well.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM Jarek Potiuk wrote:
> > Given what I read about the compa
> Given what I read about the company, they will most likely ignore you.
Some people think the company is a scam, and they seem to engage in
unethical business practices.
Yeah, but it absolutely does not mean we should give up and do nothing.
Hopefully that will give at least some people a pause
Hi,
Given what I read about the company, they will most likely ignore you. Some
people think the company is a scam, and they seem to engage in unethical
business practices.
Kind Regards,
Justin
; > >> > > > * https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/45904 -
>>> >>>> airflow
>>> >>>> >>> > >> > > > * https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/12034 -
>>> >>>> iceberg
>>
t;> >>> > >> > > > Interesting thing is that many of those users, if you
>> >>>> look at
>> >>>> >>> > their
>> >>>> >>> > >> > > > history - created. similar number of issues in iceberg
>> >>>&
; > > >
> >>>> >>> > >> > > >
> >>>> >>> > >> > > >
> >>>> >>> > >> > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM Jarek Potiuk <
> >>>> >>> ja...@potiuk.com>
> >>>> >>> >
gt; >> > > >> and applied "AI Spam" label to some of the issues
>>>> >>> > >> > > >>
>>>> >>> > >> > >
>>>> >>> > >> >
>>>> >>> >
Generally I think the only viable way to fight with such AI slop is to
find cheap ways on how to feed them back with even more garbage :). One of
my favourite projects in that space is "AI Granny" done by O2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV_SdCfZ-0s -> go and watch it :)
On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at
> This ultimately means they train AI on the contributors & maintainers.
> Either indirectly -- by extending high quality projects, or directly -- by
> observing how project maintainers react to these issues.
> Since the maintainers' time is a 'free resource' for them, it economically
> makes sense
es in the last 12
>>> >>> hours.
>>> >>> > >> > > >>
>>> >>> > >> > > >> > we also want to make sure that we don't accidentally
>>> close
>>> >>> > issues
>>
gt; > > >> infrequently (per user) the description and text seem
>> >>> legitimate,
>> >>> > >> but
>> >>> > >> > > they
>> >>> > >> > > >> are wordy and just reading and understanding that those
>> are
>> &
>> > with
> >>> > >> > > >> such a rate, it's not sustainable just to analyze whether
> >>> they
> >>> > are
> >>> > >> > good
> >>> > >> > > or
> >>> &g
gt; On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM Fokko Driesprong <
>>> > fo...@apache.org
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > > >> wrote:
>>> > >> > > >>
>>> > >> > > >>> Hey Jarek,
>>> &g
t;> > >> here
>> > >> > > >>> <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/12039>), but not
>> > many.
>> > >> I
>> > >> > > >>> hope this will come to a halt soon because it all additional
>> &
gt;>> come from a bot, but just a newcomer to the project.
> > >> > > >>>
> > >> > > >>> Kind regards,
> > >> > > >>> Fokko
> > >> > > >>>
> > >> > > >>&g
;> Fokko
> >> > > >>>
> >> > > >>> Op wo 22 jan 2025 om 09:00 schreef Jarek Potiuk <
> ja...@potiuk.com
> >> >:
> >> > > >>>
> >> > > >>> > Hey Iceberg community, And Airflow
>> 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
>> &
; > >>> >
> > >>> > 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 th
> > >>> > create a lot of the "spam AI" issues that are created in Airflow
> > are
> > > >>> also
> > > >>> > creating similar issues for Iceberg.
> > > >>> >
> > >
``
> >>> > 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 wi
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
pany 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
ts 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.
&
hink 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.
>
>
>
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> D
they will find a way to battle those without involving
> maintainers.
>
> I hope it will not last too long.
>
> J.
>
>
>
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> From: Jarek Potiuk
> Date: Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
> Subject: Re: Very strange (AI generated
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