Slopwatch: A Sea of LLM Slop About SparkyLinux, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, and Linux Kernel

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 11, 2025

The following new examples may be slightly edited, but they also seem to originate from or be derived from LLMs.

Welcome to the future? The future of the Web? █

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Exposing Corruption and Crimes Against Women Isn't a Crime, It's an Imperative: When evil and greedy people are so desperate to silence you it typically gives you more motivation - not less - to do more of the same
New EPO Leaks: Replacing Patent Examiners and Classifiers With Deficient Bots (Without Even Asking for Permission): Any consultation about it? Any media coverage? No.
Gemini Links 12/04/2025: Sigrblot and Conway Calamity: Links for the day
Links 12/04/2025: Science and "DEI" Dismantled Further in the US: Links for the day
Links 12/04/2025: "Part of the Problem" and "Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now": Links for the day
The Consensus is Changing and Web Sites View LLMs as Evil, a Malicious Force of Plagiarism and a Source of DDoS: It's not about "AI" but about plagiarism of sorts
Slopwatch: Lots of Fake Articles About "Linux" Infect the Web, Google News Still Promotes These as 'News': people who go to a site like google.com or Google News or even social control media (where users get links from Google) will be directed to read slop, i.e. pure garbage.
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 11, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, April 11, 2025
Links 11/04/2025: LLMs as Worthless Gimmicks, People in Trouble for Saying Too Much in (or Before) 'Cheeto Era': Links for the day
Gemini Links 11/04/2025: Microcosmographia Academica and Ada Language: Links for the day
Links 11/04/2025: "Getting Screamed At" and LLM Crawlers as Vandals Online: Links for the day
At the Root of the SLAPPs There Are Matters of GitHub Corruption and Microsoft Competition Crimes: Keep both eyes on the ball; this is about monopoly abuse and attempts to muzzle critics
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: More on the Complaint, Which Also Points the Finger at Stefano Mafulli and Deb Nicholson: Focus on what they are attempting to distract from
"Linux" Foundation, Besieged by Microsoft, Isn't About Science But Against Science and Against Facts: (and for Microsoft Dogma, Microsoft Domination, Microsoft Money)
IBM Pays IDG's IDC to Market Proprietary Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Under the Guise of "Research": Proprietary RHEL promoted by FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt or just plain fear-mongering)
Links 11/04/2025: Microsoft Mass Layoffs Again, Zelensky Doubles Down on Claim That Many Chinese Are Fighting for Russia: Links for the day
Slopwatch: A Sea of LLM Slop About SparkyLinux, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, and Linux Kernel: Welcome to the future? The future of the Web?
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 10, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, April 10, 2025
Gemini Links 10/04/2025: "Secret of Happiness" and Overthinking POSSE: Links for the day
Links 10/04/2025: NNCPNET Email Network, RSS Readers, and IRS as 'Immigration Enforcer': Links for the day
IBM Layoffs in Markham (Canada) Apparently Still Happening: "Still going on... Got laid off today. TEL Canada, Band 9, 19 years with IBM."
Links 10/04/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Perils and Internet Shutdown: Links for the day
Microsoft's "Linux" Foundation Pays Writers to Publish Propaganda and Then LLM Slop Sites (Slopfarms) Repeat the Propaganda, Using Microsoft LLMs: consider the latest LLM slop
Once You Slop You Can't Stop and If You're a Serial Slopper Nobody Will Believe You Really Wrote an Article (Even If You Did): It's a lot like, "if you're a serial liar people won't believe you even when you say some truth" (or "once a cheater, always a cheater")
Pressing Against SLAPPs (From Americans Who Strangle Women While Microsoft Pays Their Salaries) is a High Priority for Us: We also need to ensure that greedy firms/people that facilitate the SLAPPs get "disbarred" or "struck off"
Mozilla Firefox Already Down to 1% in Brazil: Don't people crave the surveillance and the slop?
Links 10/04/2025: Hardware, Politics, and Internet: Links for the day
Gemini Links 10/04/2025: Creativity and Agitation, Life in the USA, CSS Naked Day 2025: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 09, 2025: IRC logs for Wednesday, April 09, 2025
Alleged Layoffs at IBM Consulting in Australia: IBM loses many government contracts these days
The Rumours Were Likely True: Sixth Wave of Microsoft Mass Layoffs in 2025 (Days After "50" Anniversary and About 5,000 Layoffs): 5 hours ago, by Ashley Stewart