I do this all the time. I just keep them to myself. Nobody wants my AI slop fork even if it fixes the issues of the original.

Do you think you'd ever feel confident enough to submit non-slop patches in the future? I feel like that way, at least the project gains a potential maintainer.

I already do that, but only on projects where I actually wrote the code. I don’t see a future where I would submit something AI fully wrote even if I understood it.