LLM Slop Says Slop is "coming for white-collar jobs. Microsoft’s layoffs are just the start"
Plagiarists trying to seem "clever" or "productive" (they're neither)
LLMs 'writing' about LLMs (littering the Web) is like a joke that writes itself. Here's a new one from moments ago:
Look what the Web has become. "In 2024," to quote Wikipedia, "the dead Internet theory was sometimes used to refer to the observable increase in content generated via large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT appearing in popular Internet spaces without mention of the full theory."
This domain, which is shown above without name or link, is a slopfarm (also 'farmed' by Google News) with slop images and no original stuff. We see nonsense like this every day but rarely link to it or mention it.
For some context, Microsoft has had at least six waves of mass layoffs this year. It's hard to mask the effect by hiring cheaper workers, taking over companies etc. because the headcount still decreases.
Chaff like the above distracts from the facts. It saturates the Web.
These LLMs are a lot like kids who in my age (and era) plagiarised by copying works online, then editing the words a bit to obscure the source. Not much has changed since then except the hype and the brute force. █