I mean... At the end of the day, this is easy to handle.
Reject: please break into digestible features, probably no more than 1500 lines each. Our team is responsible for hand-verifying all changes and this cannot be hand-verified practically.
... And if they disagree they can fork.
If it's an isolated case and not anything more sophisticated, maybe. When people inevitably start mass-spamming open source projects to make their Github contribution graphs greener, this will be a serious problem that will accelerate maintainer burnouts.
This became a problem when free T-shirts were involved [1]. Now imagine what will happen when job prospects come into the picture.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643894
> When people inevitably start mass-spamming open source projects to make their Github contribution graphs greener
How does GitHub handle that right now? What's to stop an individual account from just dropping line-noise PRs onto projects (i.e. random-bytestring files that couldn't possibly be correct)?
Seems like whatever the social network (and, to be clear, GitHub is a social network) uses to police trolls right now could be applied to AI-spam. This is a problem every social network has to solve eventually; surely GitHub hasn't gone this long with no solution at all?
Yes, now other online platforms have to deal with LLM spam as well. That doesn't really mean we have a solution for that.
Social media hasn't been able to keep up with spam even before LLMs became this big. With LLMs, mass-generating legitimate sounding spam became cheap and effortless.
I suspect the solution will look something like "If you make too many PRs that don't get accepted, it flags your account for manual review... Or just preemptively cuts the account's authority to propose PRs to other people's projects pending appeal." As far as I'm aware, nobody's really drowning at Meta or Reddit regarding LLMs; they've been dealing with low-quality human-generated content at volume for decades. Perhaps this is just a new challenge for GitHub specifically?