Slopwatch: Fake News About Security Using LLMs That Make Fake 'Articles' About "Linux" (With Slop for Images)
Today's "Slopwatch" looks at some new examples of fake articles that are just LLM slop. Slopwatch calls out some of the typical, repeat offenders and culprits, starting with cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com, which work in pairs [1, 2].
Are the following articles real? No, they're both fake, just like the images at the top; those are slop, too.
As usual, cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com both produce fake articles about the same topic at the same time, exploiting text from other pages, some of them misleading FUD that blames "Linux" for Microsoft GitHub.
Then there are even more notorious Serial Sloppers.
Speaking of which, exploiting text from real articles on these topics (Kali, Xfce etc), linuxsecurity.com does it again. It's trying to outrank real work using plagiarism:
It's definitely LLM slop:
When people search the Web they might end up reading fake articles. When LLMs scan the Web to train on new material, they may in fact ingest what they themselves spewed out, reaffirming falsehoods produced by them. This cannot end well. █