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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/opensource/p/1899754/i-prompt-injected-my-contributing-md-50-of-prs-are-bots

How a hidden prompt injection in CONTRIBUTING.md revealed that 40% of pull requests to a popular GitHub repository were generated by AI bots

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[–] Wiz@midwest.social 6 points 2 days ago

Unless we figure out how to evolve our processes – which includes being able to recognize and distinguish bot contributions – open-source maintenance is going to grind to a halt.

I wish there was some sort of "trust network" where actual humans can say, "Yes, I know this contributor IRL, and vouch for them." But that's also a security problem. So, 🤷🏼