Github

Are Star Ratings on GitHub Under AI Siege?

AI Gamification of GitHub Stars?

Is anyone noticing this pattern with stereotypical AI-driven GitHub repos?

Some projects have only been around for mere weeks to a year. They have hundreds, if not thousands of commits, and a very high star count that seems suspect.

Such repositories have a pattern for how they have their README.md formatted, and quite a few of them are tracking stars with these charts ( see examples below).