We Scanned 100 AI Repos on GitHub. Here's What We Found.

We Scanned 100 AI Repos on GitHub. Here's What We Found.

A drone firmware project with 3× more stars than the real one. A crypto protocol that turned GitHub into a points farm. A README with 6,289 stars and 2 commits.

As a developer turned architect, I used to treat GitHub stars as a proxy for trust. More stars meant more legitimate, fewer reasons to question before cloning. That instinct got me thinking. So I built TrustStar, audited hundreds of repos, and found that some people had figured out that instinct before me.

Here's what the data showed.

Case 1: The Airdrop Farm (QuipNetwork)