The whole repo must be absolutely swarming with agents, just look at the sheer rate of issues and pull requests. There was 6 new PRs in the last 10 minutes at the time of writing. It's not much of a stretch to assume the stars are also inorganic.
replyEvery other minute some bots is creating an issue that a bot is trying to solve via a pull request which is reviewed by multiple bots. Future is now, good luck and have fun.
replyIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a bot stamping LGTM! :sparkles: :rocket: on a pull request - forever.
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replyThis repo is a big stitches
replyGeniune online user sentiment has died out a long time ago. If you're still basing any opinion or decision on what other "people" voted or commented online, you're easy prey for the algorithmic manipulation machine.
replyin a way, the death of genuine reviews online may be a great way to bring it back to real life at a more realistic scale
replyThis is an along the same lines as the idea that every email should cost a penny. Like if every up vote or down vote cost a penny.
replyI don’t think it would fix things, except raise the bar for what is shilled and what isn’t.
IIRC openclaw will star the project automatically on setup
replyif this is true, it must be against GitHub's ToS, right?
replyI'm sure it would be if it were explicitly instructed to leave a star.
replyIf not explicitly prompted by the install process then it becomes another case study in AI accountability washing.
I opened Openclaw on github and was shocked it was already starred. Somehow i did it and can't even remember why or when even though i have a very low opinion of this app.
replyThey probably used a claw to increase the ranking.
replyYeah, the Claws are starring the repo, obviously.
replyThat's a lot of Claws in any case.
replyAgents will dominate the internet and open source code in a few years.
reply"Dead Internet Theory" is, even if it wasn't real 5 years ago, now hyperstitioned into truthfulness as the days go on.
replyBonus for the use of the word "hyperstition". :)
replyI'm convinced more than 50% of "human" web traffic is already automated, blog posts, comments, social media, &c.
replyMany other projects would have gamed the star-count if it was possible to do at scale without GitHub removing them for fraud as they often do.
replyBy design, with llm agents and all, surely not
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