Serial Sloppers Are Killing the Web (They Probably Don't Care, Either)
There are still many legitimate, real, authentic articles about GNU/Linux and Free software every day, almost every hour. The problem is, some Serial Sloppers or low-grade plagiarists try to distract from real articles by sloppily making copies of these with substitutions (alteration, permutation, rewording by bots, obfuscation, phony "summaries") of words and no attribution at all, let alone accuracy or fact-checking (as the latter takes time, effort, real knowledge).
Slop is a disease on the Web, not only because it encourages and rewards lack of originality or gradual departure from facts (future training sets iteratively get worse and worse). It also ushers in many de facto DDOS attacks, lessening the incentive for real news sites to carry on (their hosting bills and maintenance overhead go up by a lot).
So slop is basically a parasite. On several levels. We must explain this to as many people as we can.
Case of point? These 3 'articles' were published on the same day and all appear to be LLM slop piggybacking words like "Linux" and "open source".
100% chance that it is slop/fake? Or 100% of it believed to be slop?
Same for this:
Or this:
That site became a slopfarm. Almost everything there is fake. The original site author (and company founder) quit participating it. He probably no longer wishes to associate with it.
What worried us is seeing some former "Linux" sites becoming slopfarms. It's doomed to fail. █