Jack M. Germain (LinuxInsider) Seems to Have Turned to LLM Slop, Graphics Slop, and B2B SPAM
THIS morning I saw a dubious ("says nothing") 'article' from LinuxInsider*, composed by Jack M. Germain, who is definitely a real person. But did he actually compose it? So I opened the Web page (I typically read news in a text editor), saw slop for the image and then passed it through an analyser, serving to affirm my concerns and confirm my suspicions.
Taking the first 4 paragraphs (random check):
A day earlier my wife saw the same 'article' and wondered aloud about the SPAM in the page, especially "B2B" stuff (that's how SPAMnil describes his spammy channel and site; about 98% of his "views" are fakes or bots).
If LLM slop is correctly identified and we call out the Serial Sloppers (SSs), then maybe we can contain this digital pandemic, keeping it more or less under control.
LinuxInsider is barely active anymore. When it is, we'll just presume it's a bot 'talking', not real material.
We're not yet deleting LinuxInsider (from our RSS/XML lists) because we want to observe it - and scrutinise it if necessary - for future LLM slop. █
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* Back in the Digg.com era people joked that even the editor of LinuxInsider did not use Linux (because there had been admissions). They ride the name "Linux" at ECT, a company that also employed Microsoft shills like Rob Enderle and posted loads of Linux FUD, sometimes in LinuxInsider (anti-Linux sites with "Linux" in their name aren't so uncommon).