Slopwatch: Another Day, Another Slopfest, LLM Slop Scrapers Slow Down Our Site
Yesterday we took stock of some (not all) of the slop targeting "Linux". We also mentioned a Serial Slopper seeing everything rolled back to a week earlier. Seems like BetaNews suffered major data loss and is unable to recover. A day passed and this has not been corrected. Anyway, nothing of value lost.
Elsewhere, in a notorious slopfarm that Google News keeps promoting there was this:
The image is slop (there's a new lawsuit against a slop images provider) and the text is LLM slop.
There's also this slop:
More LLM slop:
This slop is likely based on one or several of many real articles about it. It should be noted that, as usual, the image above is also slop.
We too have some slop issues; this past day this site and the sister site had to answer about 2.5 million requests (not counting Gemini Protocol) and it's slowing things down for everybody. We too have our limits. █