Serial Sloppers Ruin and Lessen the Incentive to Cover "Linux"
The Serial Sloppers (SSs) ought to be named and shamed, but almost nobody does this
Earlier this week the news circulated about Armbian v25.5 (we collected news about it in [1, 2]) and about a day later the Serial Sloppers (SSs) were already at it:
Similarly, Linux 6.15 was released by Torvalds on Sunday night (afternoon his time; he's in the far west) and lots of coverage followed. Then came the SS:
Nope, it's not a real article. All those articles are LLM slop. They're fakes. They're 'state-of-the-art' plagiarism.
It's rather frustrating to us (to my wife in particular*) that no "Linux bloggers" (like Borisov, Nestor, Wallen and so on) even dare mention this problem. We need to call out the culprits (SSs) and ensure people get exposed to accurate information written by people who actually understand the topics. A lot of today's FUD about "Linux" isn't written by humans but instead spewed out by Microsoft-controlled LLMs. It's like the "white genocide" scandal except in tech (MElon's LLM spewing out particular kinds of racism). █
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* She has brought this up about 10 times already, including yesterday afternoon. The LLM slop makes curation harder and it may cause the drive/incentive to write new, original articles to be very low. Writers don't want to "compete" with bots that rip them off.