As an example, I recently encountered one of these AI bots [1] in Ibis’s GitHub repository [2].
References
- Type: Website. Name: [“Latta”. “Our Mission:
Fix The Internet!”.]. Publisher: “Latta AI s.r.o.”. Accessed: 2025-04-03T00:48Z. URI: https://latta.ai/ourmission/ (Alternative (Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://latta.ai/ourmission/.).
- §“What just happened?”.
- The bot seems to automatically scour GitHub repos for issues, and uses AI to generate solutions for them, and subsequently submits them to the issue.
- §“What just happened?”.
- Type: Comment. Author: “okFduCi8nl6bRz”. Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: “[Bug] Forking an article triggers notifications to be sent for every previous edit up to the point of forking.” (#129). Author: “Kalcifer” (“K4LCIFER”). Publisher: [“Nutomic/ibis”. GitHub.]. Published: 2025-04-03T00:16:06.000Z. URI: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/issues/129 (Alternative (Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20250403003232/https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/issues/129).]. Published: 2025-04-03T00:19:44.000Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T00:58Z. URI: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/issues/129#issuecomment-2774030467 (Alternative (Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20250403003232/https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/issues/129#issuecomment-2774030467.).
At least they’re not hiding that the solution is generated by AI, but the random usernames make me suspect that they’re trying to avoid blocking or banning.
Brb making this bot:
I’m not sure I understand the relevance of your comment. Could you explain?
Maybe a joke at the expense of StackOverflow. That you would just need a downvote bot to simulate SO interaction, idk.
Maybe a joke at the expense of StackOverflow. […]
Yeah, I figured that, but I don’t understand how it’s relevant to the topic of this post.
Eww Nutomic the transphobic genocide denier.
Context? Who’s that and what does he have to do with this post?
[…] Who’s that […]?
I presume they are referring to @nutomic@lemmy.ml [1]; nutomic is one of the main Lemmy developers [1.1].
[…] what does he have to do with this post?
If they are indeed referring to @nutomic@lemmy.ml, I presume they are mentioning nutomic because the example GitHub repository that I cited [3] is owned by nutomic [2]; that being said, specifically regarding their claim itself that nutomic is transphobic [4] and is a genocide denier [4], it is entirely off topic, imo.
I will make no comment on the veracity of the claim itself without evidence. I do not wish to speak for nutomic — I will let them speak for themself here should they wish.
References
- Type: Webpage (Profile). Name: “@nutomic@lemmy.ml”. Publisher: [“@nutomic@lemmy.ml”. “Lemmy” (“lemmy.ml”). “Lemmy”.]. Accessed: 2025-04-03T01:58Z. URI: https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic.
- Biography.
Lemmy maintainer
- Biography.
- Type: Webpage. Name: “Nutomic/ibis”. Publisher: [“Nutomic”. GitHub]. Published: 2025-04-02T14:42:54.000Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T02:00Z. URI: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis.
- One can see in the repository identifier “Nutomic/ibis” that it is owned by “Nutomic”.
- Type: Post. Title: “There now exist bots that spam GitHub repos with AI generated solutions to issues”. Author: “Kalcifer” (“@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works”). Publisher: [“Mildly Infuriating” (“!mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world”). “sh.itjust.works”. “Lemmy”.]. Published: 2025-04-03T01:06:34Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T02:03Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35468786/17744627.
[…] I recently encountered one of these AI bots in Ibis’s GitHub repository.
- Ibis is the cited GitHub repository.
- Type: Comment. Author: “Deceptichum@quokk.au”. Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: “There now exist bots that spam GitHub repos with AI generated solutions to issues”. Author: “Kalcifer” (“@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works”). Publisher: [“Mildly Infuriating” (“!mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world”). “sh.itjust.works”. “Lemmy”.]. Published: 2025-04-03T01:06:34Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35468786/17744627.]. Published: 2025-04-03T01:36:27Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T02:08Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35468786/17744627.
Eww Nutomic the transphobic genocide denier.
It’s not off-topic when the person in question is involved.
Transphobic: https://lemmy.world/post/27563733
As for the genocide denial, I will admit I got that mixed up with the other Lemmy dev: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/socialism_faq.md
Either way I will continue to call out these pieces of shit whenever I see them mentioned.
It’s not off-topic when the person in question is involved. […]
As stated in the title, the topic is concerning the AI bots that are spamming GitHub repos [1], not anything to do with nutomic. I personally encountered the bot in nutomic’s repo [2], so I simply used it as a generic example. Given this, your comment feels off-topic, imo.
References
- Type: Post. Title: “There now exist bots that spam GitHub repos with AI generated solutions to issues”. Author: “Kalcifer” (“@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works”). Publisher: [“Mildly Infuriating” (“!mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world”). “sh.itjust.works”. “Lemmy”.]. Published: 2025-04-03T01:06:34Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T05:48Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35468786/17744627.
- The title of the post is “There now exist bots that spam GitHub repos with AI generated solutions to issues”.
- Type: Comment. Author: “okFduCi8nl6bRz”. Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: “[Bug] Forking an article triggers notifications to be sent for every previous edit up to the point of forking.” (#129). Author: “Kalcifer” (“K4LCIFER”). Publisher: [“Nutomic/ibis”. GitHub.]. Published: 2025-04-03T00:16:06.000Z. URI: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/issues/129 (Alternative (Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20250403003232/https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/issues/129).]. Published: 2025-04-03T00:19:44.000Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T00:58Z. URI: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/issues/129#issuecomment-2774030467 (Alternative (Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20250403003232/https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis/issues/129#issuecomment-2774030467.).
I do see that point of view, but honestly, I think it’s totally valid and understandable to point this out whenever they’re mentioned.
What client are you using? Boost is totally screwing up the references display
- Type: Post. Title: “There now exist bots that spam GitHub repos with AI generated solutions to issues”. Author: “Kalcifer” (“@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works”). Publisher: [“Mildly Infuriating” (“!mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world”). “sh.itjust.works”. “Lemmy”.]. Published: 2025-04-03T01:06:34Z. Accessed: 2025-04-03T05:48Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35468786/17744627.
- Type: Webpage (Profile). Name: “@nutomic@lemmy.ml”. Publisher: [“@nutomic@lemmy.ml”. “Lemmy” (“lemmy.ml”). “Lemmy”.]. Accessed: 2025-04-03T01:58Z. URI: https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic.
