Slopwatch: LinuxTechLab, linuxsecurity.com, "Cyber Security News" and More LLM Slopfarms
And the "Luddites" want real articles from real people, not chatbots
This will be a quick and concise summary. We'll just assume people already know what's so terrible about LLMs and show how they're used against "Linux" this week.
Let's begin with new slop from LinuxTechLab. This page was published earlier this week:
Sounds promising. But is this LLM slop? Most likely: (as usual this past year)
Then there's the slopfarm linuxsecurity.com, whose founder does not seem involved anymore. Here's Mrs. Day posting a bunch of rubbish, apparently by prompting some LLM without actually understanding what it's spewing back to her:
Another example:
Third one on the same day:
How very impressive. Three 'articles'... or junk thrown out by LLMs that don't even understand what they 'say'... they just act like plagiarism blenders.
Then there's the usual pair of slopfarms that Google News likes to place at the top of search results.
Fake (LLM slop) 'articles' about a Linux rc1:
Notice they use slop images and the text too is all slop. Why does Google News keep promoting slopfarms?
The 'twin' of the FUD from the other day (the sister slopfarm):
This pair of slopfarms has just had a "go" at "Ubuntu" as well:
So the Web has this bunch of slopfarms pretending to "cover" GNU/Linux. All they do is paste words from a chatbot. █