Slopwatch: BetaNews, LinuxSecurity.com, and the Attack on Web Search Using Fake and Likely Plagiarised Pages
There are online and offline articles (or pages meant to look like articles) out there that seem like they cover GNU/Linux, but they do not really. They harvest real authors' work and then use bots to produce phantoms like these:
That was hours ago, i.e. over a day after many originals had become available for scraping (later training) by LLMs. The above is another fake from a Serial Slopper:
Changing a few words here and there won't change the fact that it's not properly authored, it's a Drunken Plagiarist.
Yesterday we wrote about LinuxSecurity.com, providing the latest examples of LLM slop from it. Nothing can stop that site from contaminating the Web. The founder of that company is no longer involved (no articles), so the Serial Slopper can still devour other people's work (luring people into LLM slop based on plagiarised originals) with SEO "spam" around the term "Security":
Of course it's fake:
More LLM slop from the same day (it's 100% fake articles that day, i.e. the usual):
Once again throwing in the word "Security" while making a totally fake article to fool Google et al.
These people seem to be vandalising the Web while misappropriating other people's work. The facilitators, such as Microsoft's Scam Altman, are losing in court this week. The New York Times managed to convince the judge there was likely copyright infringement (see latest Daily Links). █