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A Follow-Up to "AI Gamification of GitHub Stars?"

A Follow-Up to “AI Gamification of GitHub Stars?”

In a follow up to my previous post, where I shared observations and musings about what appears to be extreme abuse of star ratings, I wanted to share a few “new to me” tidbits. These have organically surfaced recently through my casual catching up on the industry routine.

I certainly should have touched on my belief that it was always likely that there was some gaming of the star system to a degree - and but the widespread and extreme levels we’re seeing today is definitely new.

Are Star Ratings on GitHub Under AI Siege?

AI Gamification of GitHub Stars?

Is anyone noticing this pattern with stereotypical AI-driven GitHub repos?

Some projects have only been around for mere weeks to a year. They have hundreds, if not thousands of commits, and a very high star count that seems suspect.

Such repositories have a pattern for how they have their README.md formatted, and quite a few of them are tracking stars with these charts ( see examples below).