[greysteil]

Have hope. There are structural differences between spammy accounts and real ones, because their incentives are different. That will always be the case (it’s pretty much true by definition) and can be used to distinguish the accounts.

AI has definitely made it easier to generate more plausible-looking spam, and removed one way to easily identify bad accounts, but it hasn’t changed the underlying behaviour differences that put a lower bound on how bad the problem can become (as long as GitHub has the team and tools in place to use them in defence).