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By if you don't use AI do you mean if you don't accept pull requests on your projects and also don't read pull requests submitted to other projects you might care about?
The PRs in the post are made by Copilot. If Copilot made a PR against one of my repos (which I don't think it would because I don't use it) I would close it without looking.
Anyone can use copilot to open PR under their own name on any repo which accepts PRs, so you can't easily know copilot is involved without looking.
In the case of the first hit in the mastodon post's linked search query, it looks like a human actually opened the PR last year and subsequently requested a review from copilot (as well as from two humans); after some back and forth nothing else happened until 3 days ago when copilot updated the issue to tell them: you need to pick a "Usage billed to" option in your Copilot settings.
And then, apparently, three minutes after they updated their billing information copilot pushed some more commits and helpfully edited the human's original PR description to insert the advertisement.
(Obviously this is yet another reason to move off of github, but (1) that is much easier said than done for many projects, and (2) once it's normalized on github coding assistants will also be spamming in other venues soon enough if they aren't already.)