Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions

The Godot Engine team recently posted about more issues with "AI slop", including various pull requests that have become a big drain on resources.

You've likely seen other projects talking about this across the net, because AI agents and people who use various generative AI tools are generating code and submitting it to lots of projects to pump up their numbers - often while having no clue what the code does and not even testing it. This is becoming a bigger problem as time goes on.

Writing on Bluesky a few days ago, the Director at game dev studio Hidden Folks wrote:

This led to a Bluesky thread from Godot Project Maintainer Rémi Verschelde, that mentions how "draining and demoralizing" it has become due to the influx of it and how they end up second guessing "every PR from new contributors".

There seems to be no easy answer here, someone or something somehow has to filter through the increasing noise of both people and bots just shovelling out AI generated code to various projects like Godot. One solution that Verschelde mentioned being suggested is using AI to fight AI which they said "seems horribly ironic" but they might have to eventually.

Even GitHub themselves are aware of the problematic situation, with a post from the GitHub Project Manager Camilla Moraes a few weeks ago saying they're exploring solutions to "the increasing volume of low-quality contributions that is creating significant operational challenges for maintainers".

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