Godot maintainers struggle with 'demoralizing' AI slop PRs (www.theregister.com)

Maintainers of the open-source Godot game engine are expressing concern over a growing influx of "AI slop pull requests" (PRs), which they find to be demoralizing and a significant drain on their resources. Triggered by a game designer's comment highlighting the bewildering nature of LLM-generated PRs—often verbose and nonsensical—Godot maintainer Rémi Verschelde called for more funding to manage the deluge. This issue isn't isolated, as similar complaints have emerged from projects like Blender and Gentoo, the latter of which is migrating away from GitHub due to the platform's promotion of AI tools like Copilot that exacerbate these problems. The situation poses multi-faceted implications for the AI/ML community. While GitHub acknowledges the challenge of managing low-quality contributions at scale, they're working on new features aimed at addressing the issue, such as PR deletion capabilities and conditional gating based on existing issues. Discussions on refining submission criteria and employing AI for automated triage further reflect the tension between promoting AI technologies and mitigating their disruptive impact on open-source collaboration. This ongoing dialogue highlights the necessity for responsible integration of AI in development environments, ensuring that it complements rather than complicates the open-source ecosystem.