Slopwatch: Fake 'Articles' About Linux by Brian Fagioli and by Brittany Day in BetaNews and linuxsecurity.com (LLM Slop Sites That Are Online Leeches or SEO Operations Working Against Free Software Journalism)
Two new examples for today
TODAY we start with linuxsecurity.com
, an anti-Linux googlebomber trying to pull "hits" to sell some crap based on horrible FUD [1, 2], recycled from Microsoft chatbots or similar.
The following "smells" not genuine; it can be trained on about a dozen real articles. We assume it came late because of the training. Maybe the fake 'author' (Day) doesn't know anything about Linux, maybe simply waited for a "training set" to grow (for the plagiarism blender), hence the lateness of this lousy LLM slop:
They do SEO on "Linux" and "security", but did they write something or add something authentic? No.
Over at BetaNews it's hardly better. We mentioned one example earlier today and here's another one from the same fake 'author', Brian Fagioli:
Catalogue photography and spam in between.
All fake:
Further down... the same:
Did Acer pay BetaNews for this fake 'article'? Money well spent?
Better to take your site offline or keep it inactive than to turn to LLM slop. The latter would cause humiliation AND lead to the site dying (same outcome, regardless). Keep honest, embrace dignity, do not dabble in LLM slop.
If you 'experiment' with LLM slop, you WILL get caught. It's only a matter of time! From then on, everything else you publish will be presumed unworthy of reading because "likely slop". █