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I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots (glama.ai)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/opensource/p/1899754/i-prompt-injected-my-contributing-md-50-of-prs-are-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

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[–] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

can I make them do extra work that would make their contributions genuinely valuable?

The worst-case scenario for this is that you make them do extra work that isn't genuinely valuable, and it wastes their lazy devs' tokens.

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