Post AWFtXkclSZPDMloxVo by danluu@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AVSjLRALZVwvYPKv4q by danluu@mastodon.social
       2023-05-09T00:51:38Z
       
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       Interesting to see the rise of ChatGPT-enabled Github spam.The screenshots below are from one account, but if you search a bit it's very easy to find other examples.Github doesn't appear to be on top of this at all, e.g., the account mentioned in https://github.com/swarna1101/VeChain-Thor/issues/1 has been spamming repos since last year and hasn't been banned (I reported a bad account once and got no response and nothing happened and haven't bothered since).
       
 (DIR) Post #AWFtXjtOBH6r62aimm by SenseException@phpc.social
       2023-05-10T09:39:09Z
       
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       @danluu I get a 404 on that user profile so it got removed. A search for the title of the pr has no results. I wonder how the user was able to create a pr if this was a private repo.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWFtXkclSZPDMloxVo by danluu@mastodon.social
       2023-05-10T09:41:58Z
       
       1 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @SenseException Yeah, hitting #1 on HN tends to cause easily fixed symptoms of issues to get resolved.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWFtiAlH8Y3VKElsSu by danluu@mastodon.social
       2023-06-01T18:10:40Z
       
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       Some people asked what the point of this kind of spam is. That will vary by account, but I'd guess that, by volume, most spam will be from accounts associated with spam services, e.g., services that let you buy GitHub stars (stars from semi-plausible accounts cost ~$1/star, > 10x the rate of stars from newly created spam accounts).BTW, one of the two accounts mentioned above got wiped out 3-4 days after the "toot" hit #1 on HN and the other is still spamming.