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Honestly I reached a point where I was getting pull-requests which were best characterized as "AI spam", I just archived all of them.

Every single one of my public github repositories is archived and no longer updated.

I have projects I work on, but I keep them to myself. I've just lost interest in wasting time on issues and submissions from people - which is a depressing position to be in, because most of the time people mean well, and over the years I've definitely benefited from contributions of many interested and skilled people.

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I created this thread thinking that AI is definitely going to shake the open-source world, and I wanted to know how people deal with AI-slop PRs.

Thank you for sharing your experience. I am not an open-source rockstar, and I have only had to reject PRs a few times in my life. All the times I felt terrible for people who put in some effort to build something around my code and got rejected.

Even if you reject their changes remember they have their own fork, and they can keep using it locally. Sure they have to keep updating their local work if you don't include it in your repository, but that's a small price to pay. After all if you hadn't made your code available in the first place nobody would be using it, modified, or unmodified.