New Paper Reveals the Web (and Net) Drowns in LLM Slop, "Linux" is Impacted Too
In our latest Daily Links under "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" [sic] (LLMs are not "AI") we included the following links:
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Futurism ☛ The Entire Internet Is Being Polluted by AI Slop
AI slop has made its way into practically every corner of the internet. Just look at Facebook, or what's become of Pinterest. But what about AI-written text? It may not be as flagrantly bonkers as AI images, but it's also started to permeate the web.
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Fast Company ☛ AI slop is suffocating the web, says a new study - Fast Company
An analysis of more than 300 million documents, including consumer complaints, corporate press releases, job postings, and messages for the media published by the United Nations suggests that the web is being swamped with AI-generated slop.
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arXiv ☛ The Widespread Adoption of Large Language Model-Assisted Writing Across Society
We systematically analyzed large language model (LLM) adoption patterns across four distinct domains: consumer complaints, corporate PR communications, job postings, and governmental press releases (see Supplementary Information for data collection and preprocessing). Our analysis reveals a consistent pattern of initial rapid adoption following ChatGPT’s release, followed by a notable stabilization period that emerged between mid to late 2023 across all domains (Fig. 1).2
Looking at today's news (or slop disguised as such), fake "Linux" sites prove the point above. Here's one new example from a Serial Slopper (SS) - one among several domains that we watch closely:
It was in Planet Ubuntu yesterday. It is 100% LLM slop (or certainly LLM-generated):
Here's another new example about "Linux":
Same problem.
It will be getting harder to trust anything on the Web. █