S.E.O. SPAM by Serial Sloppers With L.L.M. Garbage is Hurting Linux
Any time a Serial Slopper (SS or repeat plagiarist) targets (GNU/)"Linux" or "security" or "Linux security" or whatever (linuxsecurity.com does this almost every day) we all stand to suffer. The Web in general suffers from that.
Here's the latest (new) example:
Notice that it's 100% fake, it's just LLM slop:
When it comes to LLM slop about "Linux", we must not keep quiet or stay passive. We believe the strategy is to keep naming Serial Sloppers and that this way others won't follow. We want to discourage the practice of using slop for 'articles' (if not universally, then at least in the domain of Free software and/or tech in general).
"There is a problem with some using slop for graphics and/or pretend summaries," an associate adds. "They'll have a real blog post or article but damage it with a slop decoration."
We continue to run Slopwatch*, wherein we try to summarise a batch of examples and culprits; please join us in calling out the culprits, discouraging this and other such behaviour. █
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* Prior parts in Slopwatch:
- Slopwatch: Brittany Day and Brian Fagioli Are Still at It, Googlebombing "Linux" With LLM Slop (Taking Away Traffic From the Articles They're Plagiarising)
- Slopwatch: Too Lazy to Write Real Articles, Offloading to Chatbots Instead (LLM Slop About "Linux")
- 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)
- Slopwatch: Too Lazy to Write Real Articles, Offloading to Chatbots Instead (LLM Slop About "Linux")
- Slopwatch: BetaNews Plagiarism and LLM Slop by UNIXMen
- Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux" and More (Latest Roundup Featuring BetaNews, Janus Atienza, and Brittany Day From Guardian Digital, Inc)