[zamadatix]

It's a fair question but I had a bit of a chuckle at the idea having a shit ton of emojis in your GitHub readme was the first flag it might be AI. Mostly because I always assumed the opposite - that GitHub readmes were a big part of the emoji ridden listicle training data (the other being slop "news" site/social media listicles) for AIs in the first place. After all, they are decently well written and come with grabbing the code to train from anyways.

[userbinator]

Before the rise of AI, I had not seen much GitHub content with emojis at all, much less overused; I suspect their source is actually the latter of what you noted. Either way, it's a negative signal.