Comment by rtdq

8 hours ago

I don't follow, and I'd be concerned that this opens up a cottage industry of bots generating plausible looking repositories that unwitting contributors would attempt to contribute to. We already know that bots are astroturfing repos to generate overinflated star counts. I'd say the least crap option here is to honeypot PR contributions from bots

This feels like bot logic, lol.

Unless the contributors don't care about the repos they contribute to, this is not a likely scenario. AI doesn't care. We do.

  • What is bot logic exactly?

    You keep describing this as not a likely or realistic scenario. But why is the likelihood even of relevance here? The way to avoid the worst case i.e scammed of your money, is to not even put it on the table in the first place.

    • > What is bot logic exactly?

      Ill thought out logic like your own. I think you are likely a bot at this point.

      It's not likely, because that's not something that people are likely to do. Only a bot like yourself with a poor model of the world will do this type of thing. It will be amusing to see the AI bots trying to run the scam you are describing and then nobody will contribute to the fake projects... except other fake AI contributors.

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