How a hidden prompt injection in CONTRIBUTING.md revealed that 40% of pull requests to a popular GitHub repository were generated by AI bots
How a hidden prompt injection in CONTRIBUTING.md revealed that 40% of pull requests to a popular GitHub repository were generated by AI bots
This is exactly the problem we’re trying to solve at The Zeitgeist Experiment. We skip the engagement metrics entirely and rank responses by thoughtfulness. Email-based surveys with human-AI verification filters out the bot noise. Open source deserves discourse that actually reflects what humans think, not what models say humans want to hear.