Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer.
The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scott Shambaugh, was harassed by someone's AI agent over not merging it's AI slop code.
It's likely the bot was running through someone's local 'agentic AI' instance (likely using OpenClaw). The guy who built OpenClaw was just hired by OpenAI to "work on bringing agents to everyone." You'll have to forgive me if I'm not enthusastic about that.

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AI-generated code submissions are overwhelming open source maintainers with low-quality pull requests and bug reports. The curl project dropped bug bounties after useful vulnerability reports fell from 15% to 5% due to AI spam. GitHub now allows repositories to disable pull requests entirely. Agentic AI tools are enabling users to mass-submit code without genuine contribution or review, creating unsustainable workloads for maintainers while AI companies continue expanding these capabilities.

AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet