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Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Many do have automated checking, testing, rules for the PR maker to follow and such.

If they don’t have it set up, and the project is big, TBH the maintainers should set it up.

The issue is that these submitters are (often) drive-by spammers. They aren’t honest, they don’t care about the project, they just want quick kudos for a GitHub PR on a major project.

Filtering a sea of scammers is a whole different ballgame than guiding earnest, interested contributors. Automated tooling isn’t set up for that because (outside the occasional attempt to sneak malware into code) it wasn’t really a thing.