The 'Drunken Plagiarists' Are Harming Journalism About GNU/Linux
It seems or at least sort of "feels" like more and more sites "pivot to slop". In the case of GNU/Linux, we can name and enumerate them. Some merely dabble in it (after we explained and showed that Jack M. Germain (LinuxInsider) had resorted to slop he did some better articles), but with some sites this problem is chronic and a daily occurrence. LinuxSecurity.com is almost 100% LLM slop (a 'slopfarm') and in BetaNews we've caught a Serial Slopper, who slobbers over LLMs and makes fake articles about "Linux" (probably derived from real articles, which are kind of plagiarised). His latest work is entitled "Chimera Linux 20250214 update launches with new apk-tools, Kernel 6.13, and official PowerPC support", it contains slop graphics, and https://gptzero.me/ is 100% certain the first 3 paragraphs are LLM slop, with Sapling showing the same (we didn't check other paragraphs).
Chimera's releases was mentioned in Distrowatch and we hope that BetaNews' Managing Editor Wayne William can do a real article about it. The fakes are taking up space [1, 2] and discrediting BetaNews as a whole. They also lessen the incentive to do real journalism abut GNU/Linux. █