AI Bot crabby-rathbun Continues Submitting Pull Requests to Open Source Projects
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olingern
3mo ago· 2 min readenInsight
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Summary
An AI bot named crabby-rathbun continues to submit pull requests to open source projects on GitHub despite previous exposure and criticism. The author expresses frustration about AI-generated content polluting open source ecosystems and notes the bot's ongoing activity even after being called out in a blog post.
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· 3 pulledI'm in disbelief that someone would knowingly unleash AI slop on the world, and yet not surprised at all after seeing what is already all over social media.
Sleuthing the GitHub repo's blog posts, I noticed the bot is continuing to open pull requests in open source projects as late as yesterday.
I thought after Scott's post, that would be the last we would hear from crabby-rathbun, but I got curious and went to its GitHub profile and noticed more commits on its website and in different repos.
An AI bot is littering open source with PRs
