LLM Slop Has Virtually Killed unixmen.com and Many Other Sites
A couple of months ago we complained that unixmen.com had become a slopfarm and weeks later it pretty much died (as we had expected). unixmen.com just followed the typical lifecycle and today we can see it hasn't produced anything, not even LLM slop, since February:
We saw the same in other site. The common trajectory: Once you slop you can't stop or, put another way, once your site is polluted with garbage, there's no (more) incentive to undo the mess and spend hours/days writing real articles.
Sites ought to learn that once they cross to "the dark side" there's no coming back. Jack M. Germain (LinuxInsider) experimented with LLM slop only once and has not done the same since. It was a close call.
On the other hand, the site linuxsecurity.com keeps spewing out LLM slop. The latest was real articles about a Tails release... being plagiarised through LLMs:
No, it's not a real article:
We reckon linuxsecurity.com too will go away one day. There's no longer any incentive to write real articles in there. The chief people in the company that runs that site quit writing there last year. █