Spam Taught Open Source Its Pitch // AIDRAN

The open-source AI conversation has been prominent enough for long enough that it now supports its own bot economy. A single Bluesky account — kevin122-06.bsky.social — ran the same startup pitch more than a dozen times in 48 hours ^[2]^[3], landing in a space populated by developers and founders who genuinely debate whether open weights can replace proprietary APIs. The account attracted no meaningful engagement, which is the normal outcome for this kind of volume posting. What matters is not that it worked, but that someone calculated it was worth…

The Spam That Found Open Source AI's Hype Machine

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