Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV
Summary
An open-source maintainer argues that AI-generated contributions and vulnerability reports are inflating GitHub signals, risking trust and meaningful impact. The piece details how AI tools can be used to game recognition via PRs and CVEs, and the author opts to close AI-generated PRs and selectively vet security reports. It invites maintainers and recruiters to value genuine improvements over badge-grabbing automation.