BetaNews Has More or Less Died After Experiments With LLM Slop, Is Linuxsecurity Next?
Trajectory of self-harm. LLM Slopfarm: A Site's Last Incarnation Before Throwing in the Towel, Going Offline Permanently
Yesterday we saw 2 'articles' in Linuxsecurity, a site where they use SPAM for SEO purposes and where they leverage LLMs. These were no exception:
It's classic slop structure (we've checked) with slop images peppered all around there. Speaking of slop images, Linux Journal uses many slop images (more so lately), even in its latest article. And BetaNews seems dead, or just stale after some major event. Something broke badly of they got cracked. Why? This puff piece published yesterday (brandishing slop image, as usual) used a generic account before it was changed to "Kayla Matthews", a person whose portfolio is a long series of slop images.
The BetaNews team lost many articles and it seems clear that they struggle to recover and are refusing to provide any explanation of what happened.
That's sort of ironic; the charlatans in BetaNews used to post a lot about data recovering, "security" etc.
It doesn't seem like BetaNews knows what it's doing, let alone what it talks about. (Or what it lets LLMs 'talk' about). █