Re: Plagia-Bot

On 2026-08-08, Jim Jackson wrote:

> On 2026-08-07, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 16:34:07 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:
>>
>>> I saw the response - it was not mythical. It certainly looked weird,
>>> and plagarising.
>>
>> Here???s a copy from my email notification:
>>
>>     I had a quick look through this commit and noticed a couple of
>>     small things that might be worth considering.First, there are a
>>     few `asyncio.ensure_future()` calls where the returned task isn???t
>>     stored anywhere.From the docs, it looks like keeping a reference
>>     to the task is recommended so it doesn???t get garbage-collected
>>     while still running. `asyncio.create_task()`might be a better fit
>>     here, or a `TaskGroup` could help manage the references
>>     automatically.
>>
>>     Also noticed `_connect_async()` could be written a little more
>>     cleanly by using an `else` block after the exception handling.
>>     That keeps the successful connection path separate from the retry
>>     case and makes the flow a bit easier to follow.
>>
>>     One other minor thing: explicitly inheriting from `object` isn???t
>>     needed in Python 3 anymore. It doesn???t hurt, but it can be removed
>>     for simplicity.
>>
>> This appeared a few hours after my own posting
>><https://community.asterisk.org/t/need-help-testing-testsuite-untwisted/113807/2>.
>
> I fear that such things are going to become a lot more commonplace. Just 
> look at the web-scraping and "fake" (parasitic?) websites that existed 
> before this surge in AI stuff. It can only get worse.

They still do exist and rank on top of Google searches, don't they? That
was one of the two outcomes of Google priorizing "Chrome on
Android-friendly" websites in the results...  (the other was loss of
content and information, as several entities just revamped their sites
to appeal to Googlebot, dropping e.g. drivers and manuals in the
process)

-- 
Nuno Silva