AI‑Generated PR Spam Swamps OpenClaw, Threatening Open‑Source Trust
OpenClaw’s pull‑request volume exploded from two a week to 3,400, while merge rates fell from 48 % to under 10 %. Most new PRs are AI‑generated spam submitted in seconds, eroding repo trust. The crisis pushes projects toward sender‑reputation tools such as Mitchell Hashimoto’s Vouch.