"AI Slop is DDoSing Open Source": Understanding the Impact of AI-Generated Contributions on Open Source Sustainability

Sadia Afroz, Courtney Miller, Tyler Menezes +3

Open source software (OSS) communities are facing increasing pressure from Generative AI (GenAI) tools. We call it AI-DDoS: a denial-of-service effect in which plausible but low-qu…