I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots

https://lemmy.world/post/44572752

But what is the purpose of this? So people are setting up bots that are sending PRs to open source projects, but why?

Poisoning the well.

Companies make money using open source code and ignore the licenses which compel them to release their source code (out of ignorance, laziness and selfish gains). While AI generated cannot be copyrighted then you cannot apply copyleft licenses to that code. Telling human authored code from AI slop may be less than 100% obvious to tell, which could may make it more difficult to enforce copyleft compliance in a lawsuit.