Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com, cybersecuritynews.com, gbhackers.com, and techmonitor.ai (Fake 'Articles' About "Linux")
Earlier this month: Thinking About Abandoning 'Google News' Altogether Due to Easy Poisoning by LLM Slop
TODAY we'll give a quick outline of fake articles that claim to be "articles" (masquerading as such) and talk about "Linux". Almost all of them (75%) show up in Google News, adding to an existing problem and contributing to misinformation (generated by bots, so accountability is harder).
Say hello to linuxsecurity.com. This was the only 'article' published yesterday:
It's not a real article but junk with terms like "AI" thrown in for SEO:
How about the slopfarm cybersecuritynews.com pretending to have written about GIMP? There are many real articles, but this one is fake and likely based on output from a Microsoft plagiarism blender (taking originals as mere "training set").
Of course the partner site of the above, gbhackers.com, also spewed out some garbage made by a bot along with image slop:
As it turns out, the slopfarms have a new arrival at Google News. It's called techmonitor.ai:
Real article? Meh.
As a bonus, earlier today we spoke about how Times of India (and its sister sites) is nowadays LLM slop or sometimes SPAM. Notice how this long and verbose headline presents an actual product (marketing spam) and shows up as "news" about "Linux" (hardly for the first time, but the one below is new).
Does this even remotely look like a real news article? █