Comment by frumiousirc

Yes, the spam arms race is a really good analogy. In that light, my thoughts are aligned with heuristics that might be applied with procmail or in the original, pre-learning, spamassassin.

A fight-fire-with-fire is to insert an LLM to judge and/or respond to new pull requests and issues. This brings its own risk as it lets anyone who can make a PR/issue inject a prompt. It would also put one more wedge between the real human contributors and the real human developers.

A "humanity score" could also be an ingredient. GitHub or 3rd parties, could maintain a score of how human an account is. The "humanity" of all text produced by an account could be judged by LLM and/or humans. This could be centralized or based on a web-of-trust. Actually, I'd also like to have such a thing for reading HN and reddit comments.

But still, any system we can dream up can be attacked and we are back to an arms race.