Slopwatch: Liars for Microsoft, Plagiarism, and IBM Red Hat Markets Slop as "AI"
Today was a bad day, news-wise. It's not that Wednesdays are slow news days, they're not. Wednesdays are perhaps the most active days for news, but there was an epic tonnage of Microsoft propaganda (some of the latest in one page) and in the Microsoft-funded Red Hat Summit there was promotion of all things Microsoft, not to mention bribed-for fake "journalism" and endless buzzwords, as chronicled throughout the day [1, 2]. Well, of course the dominant buzzword was "hey hi" (AI), not clown computing, as "the clown" is considered "old" and not "novel" (it typically just meant "server" or "computation" all along). This is what happens when MBAs control everything.
Along the way we caught not only "clouds" of buzzwords but also LLM slop. We someone has just put it: "The liars and the shills redefined what people used to mean by "AI" as "AGI", artificial _general_ intelligence, so they could market their stupid plagiarism bots as AI."
We wrote about this several times earlier in the week.
Watching the ludicrous promotion of Windows in "Linux" clothing using LLM slop, you'd stumble upon stuff like this:
Also this fake 'article' (plagiarism):
Another slopper, the Serial Slopper from BetaNoise, decided to write about "AI" with some extra "buzz", "quantum" [1, 2]. He keeps pushing out such slop about this particular word, "quantum" (which he clearly lacks comprehension of):
It's just a sea of nonsense, like the dozens of "real" articles we saw, likely based on one another or the press releases from IBM:
What's really obnoxious today is (or was) the lack of disclosure/s though; many 'articles' about Red Hat were in fact paid for by Red Hat (it's not hard to verify those payments; we focused on such verification months ago). Under IBM, Red Hat is becoming similar to Microsoft. This week it is promoting Windows as well. █