Slopwatch: BetaNews Plagiarism and LLM Slop by UNIXMen
Some "state-of-the-art" plagiarism
SO earlier today we wrote about LLM slop from BetaNews being presented as front page 'news'. It's really bad. That site has gotten worse than bad. Now that there are articles about Wine 10 (examples here; updated over time) BetaNews seems to be plagiarising them using LLMs, thinking it's all clever and "state-of-the-art":
Some major news, "Latest Technology News". But who wrote this?
How very typical.
4 days ago we pointed out that UNIXMen does/did the same and had done so in past years, even in 2023.
This is the latest UNIXMen 'article':
LLM slop? You bet!
News isn't "LLM slop"; news is written by real people with actual comprehension of what they are covering. These charlatans try to get bots to compete with actual authors. The bots contribute nothing but disinformation/misinformation while lessening incentive to produce real articles. █
Also see: BetaNews Has Become a SPAM/Slop Factory, Brian Fagioli Publishes Fake 'Articles' | It's Morbid to Talk About Living People as If They're Dead | BetaNews, Inc. Became a Spam Operation/Web Site, LLM Spew (Slop) for SEO Disguised as "Articles" | BetaNews is Beta-Testing the Site as LLM Slop With Microsoft Propaganda Thrown In | Even the Managing Editor of BetaNews is Doing Slop and Spam | At BetaNews, "Most Commented Story" Is Not a Story But LLM Slop! (Readers Talking to Bots) | BetaNews is Run and Written by Bots That Make Clickbait | BetaNews, Desperate for Clicks, is Pushing Donald Trump Spam Created by LLMs (Slop) | "Latest Technology News" in BetaNews is Press Release SPAM (or LLM Slop, Marketing, Fake 'Review')