I've heleped maintain awesome-bash for years and I see a similar pattern. Almost all of the recent PRs are links to AI-generated projects. And somehow, within days or weeks of their creation, they get hundreds of stars.

There's always been self-promotion and spam, but AI takes it to another level. On many issues, I don't think I'm responding to a real human.

It would be nice if forking and modifying these awesome lists were easier, since many are out of date. I have my own personal catalog, roughly based on many awesome lists, but it was a bit of a hassle to setup.