On Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 8:53:01 p.m. UTC+1 Oscar wrote: I don't think that these are AI bots. They are humans who are using AI for everything including writing the code and writing comments and things.
Let's do a simple test. Instead of commenting these PRs by typing text in, let's just attach an image containing the comment. This is no problem for human beings, but I expect AI-bots to fail in understanding the comment, unless they are connected with an OCR or use vision-language models. The reason for doing this is the google summer of code (GSOC) programme. SymPy enters that programme every year and a few people (usually students) will do projects where they get paid by Google to work on something in SymPy. This is what they want on their CV. SymPy's rules are that someone has to have a PR merged to be considered for GSOC so every year at this time large numbers of people turn up and start opening PRs, many of which are low quality. SymPy isn't the only project that's being spammed by AI-generated PRs. Apparently this problem is quite common. Let's keep an eye on the preventive measures that other projects are taking. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/e40cc976-0ef8-491a-b40f-75cbde8e1c86n%40googlegroups.com.
