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AI crawler suspected of inflating GitHub project clone counts

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A user on Mastodon shared their observation that their Maple code project on GitHub experienced an unusual surge of over 200 clones in a single day. They suspect this activity is not from human users but rather an AI crawler, given the low number of unique visitors and the sudden, uncharacteristic spike in interest. AI

RANK_REASON User speculation about AI activity on GitHub, not a verifiable event or release.

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AI crawler suspected of inflating GitHub project clone counts

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Quick graphics that shows the madness at Github nowadays. My little Maple code project on Github ( https:// github.com/Anthrazit68/NODEMap le ) has had over 200

    Quick graphics that shows the madness at Github nowadays. My little Maple code project on Github ( https:// github.com/Anthrazit68/NODEMap le ) has had over 200 clones on one day last week. The maximum number of unique visitors was 2. It is absolutely impossible that over 200 peo…

    LINKS github.com/…/NODEMaple

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