When the News Sources Become Scarce and Increasingly Full of Polluted/Contaminated 'Content' (With LLM Slop and Slop Images)
Twitter et al (Social Control Media) are just source of misinformation; even Web sites are fast reducing their standards
In spite of many "Linux" sites turning into botspam we're still managing to find a lot of news out there. We're curating what's left. That's why the sister site turns 21 - now it's more essential than ever - it's like a filter. Its purpose is to cull LLM garbage and seek/find the "signal".
Over the past month or so the site experienced a surge in Web traffic. We suspect LLM scrapers had a lot to do with it. But it was the same in Gemini (285,164 Gemini Protocol requests last week, compared to 895,750 Gemini Protocol requests in this site).
The Web may not be entirely doomed as long as some sites - perhaps not as many sites as before - maintain high standards and publish things that are original, correct, and not spewed by stochastic parrots. Integrity matters. █