[kichik]

They might be looking for some open-source fame. The contribution to their resume is more important than the contribution to the project.

[0points]

I fixed a single word typo in a doc string in github.com/golang/go, resulted in a CONTRIBUTORS entry and a endless torrent of spam from "headhunters".

[ramon156]

This was an issue without LLMs too, and it sucks. GH has a tag for "good first issue" which always gets snatched by someone who only cares about the contribution line. Sometimes they just let it sit for weeks because they forgot that they now have to actually do the work.