Comment by BrunoBernardino

As a contributor, I haven't run into anything like that, but I haven't contributed to high-visibility OSS repos in the last few months, I believe.

From the other side (OSS maintainer), I've had some issues, PRs, and emails which are clearly LLM-generated.

While they provoke in me a terrible first impression, I try to keep an empathic attitude and justify it by, for example, considering that some people might be able to read and understand code, thus make requests and suggestions, but not be fluent in English, so they don't feel comfortable not using such tools to assist them.

That being said, if it's clearly a bad, long, complicated, or unintelligible request, suggestion, or contribution, I'll reject it. It's my project, and many people trust me to not make terrible decisions, so if I don't understand it, I'll not accept it. You're always free to fork the project and move on with your changes.

Finally, I'll just say that my OSS projects in GH have less than 2k stars in total (one of them being 1.1k stars), so I might be too small to be targeted "to death" like I've read some projects to have been. If that happens, I'd probably close access to the code unless you pay a one-time fee.