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Richard Stallman Can Explain to Oxford Artificial Intelligence Society Why LLM Slop is Not Artificial Intelligence and Why It Hurts Society

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 24, 2025

There's some "buzz" this week:

Oxford frens, Dr. Richard Stallman is a legend in advocating for software freedom and helping to make it possible, founding the free software movement and creating the GNU General Public License (GPL) in the 80s - come round!

Richard Stallman's Oxford talk is scheduled or planned for this afternoon. In his "talks" page (personal Web site) he says: "The event will be hosted by the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Society and the Oxford Blockchain Society. We understand that the uses of computing can be unjust. Most do not realize that the mechanisms of computing can be unjust in other ways. If a program that the users do not control does your computing, it controls your computing. When servers that the users do not control do your computing, those servers control it. So don't entrust your own computing to a program that isn't libre or a server whose operator isn't a loyal friend. For your own computing, insted of a server that might mistreat you, use free software on your own computer."

It speaks of "Oxford Artificial Intelligence Society", so we can hope that Dr. Stallman will mention how so many things that are not Artificial Intelligence are wrongly described as such while they harm society. They even make false Stallmans.

We've meanwhile collected another 'crop' of LLM slop that damages GNU/Linux and facts.

Here's new FUD by LLM slop:

XorDDoS Malware Overview: Threats to Linux, IoT, and Botnet Formation

We covered other LLM slop about this same topic earlier this week. It's always pure slop, the people who press "publish" don't know what it says, they just saddle their slopfarms with junk to get scattered onto the Web.

When malware like XorDDoS resurfaces with expanded capabilities

Plagiarism and googlebombing:

MX Linux 23.6: Improved Security and Admin Tools for Efficient Management

100% nonsense.

In this article, I'll detail all the security-oriented upgrades and features in MX Linux's latest release that make it worth considering for security-conscious admins.

More plagiarism by bots (based on originals):

Linux 6.15-rc3: Security Advisory for UBLK Driver Enhancements

Ditto.

In this article, I'll explore what Linux administrators need to know about this release, why these fixes are crucial, and how staying up to date can prevent larger security issues in the future.

More LLM slop today:

Intel’s new Linux graphics driver finally allows full memory use (performance jumps 43%)

Malicious npm Packages Attacking Linux Developers to Install SSH Backdoors

Those are 100% slop! Even the images! And that last one spreads the FUD we responded to earlier this week.

Slop promoted as "AI" is ruining the Web. We're all worse off for it.

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