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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by jimbokun on Thursday February 12, 2026 @07:39PM (#46997394)
How can GitHub determine whether a submission is from a bot or a human?
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by cyanydeez on Thursday February 12, 2026 @08:01PM (#46997588)
Money. Money gates everywhere.
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by distortionfield on Thursday February 12, 2026 @08:31PM (#46997833)
We already have agentic payment workflows, this won’t stop it either as people are already willing (and able) to give their agent AIs a small budget to work with.
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by cyanydeez on Thursday February 12, 2026 @08:34PM (#46997860)
No one is putting 5$ to open a PR. Pau gates stopped trolls and itll stop this type of botting/troll.

Same with github accounts, etc. The age of free accounts is quickly going out.

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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by distortionfield on Thursday February 12, 2026 @09:04PM (#46998037)
Disagree. I have seen people pay more for less. Especially in the case of something like a PR where their job performance could be tied to the result.
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