Slopwatch: Anti-Linux Articles, Not Even Written by Humans
It is sometimes tempting to just check Gemini Protocol for news and abandon the Web, but Geminispace is not large or extensive enough.
On today's Web, many articles are fake and most people cannot distinguish; they're likely to spend time reading text that was just spewed out by some machine, maybe even share it (or link to it). It's taking its toll of large sites, not just readers. Those sites are treated just like some "training set".
Consider this thing:
Just a bunch of LLM slop with SEO targeting "security" and "Linux":
The following from cybersecuritynews (slopfarm) was promoted as "Linux" news by Google News:
And gbhackers (a sister slopfarm of the above) was also propped up by Google News:
There is also:
Typos there, too.
LLM-generated FUD:
And in cybersecuritynews: (slopfarm fed by Google News, instead of the sites it is plagiarising)
So this is the kind of thing and quantity of things one might expect in a single day (there's lots more that we do not see or "catch"). And that's just for "Linux". Imagine all the other topics that got 'slopped' every day.
Is this a situation we can co-exist with? Why aren't Web sites more vocal about this problem? █