LLM Slopfarms: LinuxSecurity.com and FUDZilla Doing 'Linux' (Fake Articles)
Earlier today: FUDZilla Has Turned Into LLM Slop and Machine-Generated FUD (New York Times Has Also Just Admitted Moving in That Direction)
We still think it is very important to discourage adoption of LLM slop to produce fake 'journalism'. We therefore call out the culprits (sites) or the serial sloppers (people; Drunken Plagiarists) who engage in state-of-the-art journalistic plagiarism and who thereby lessen the financial (and/or motivational) incentive to write about GNU/Linux - the topic that we limit ourselves to (scope intentionally restricted as it would be infeasible to keep track of otherwise).
To be very clear, this is a growing problem even outside the realm of "Linux", but even in this realm alone there is lots of scandalous stuff going on. There seems to be disinformation (proactive and wilful misinformation).
Here's a 'new' so-called 'news' story about so-called 'Open Source AI': (don't expect this to make sense; it's just slop, i.e. grammatically-correct garbage)
It is LLM slop:
Likewise in FUDZilla. Slopfarm is what it is now:
It's LLM slop:
Maybe they substitute a few words here and there, but everything else is automated (even the image), pretty much worthless and - as noted this morning - inaccurate if not bluntly false.
It's 2025. Everything on the Web is getting worse, except SPARTAN (private joke; it's not the Web either but a potential replacement for it). █
