Coffee Day and LLM Sloppers
Or GPL violators ("The Campaign Against GPL Compliance and War on Copyleft Enforcement")
Almost every Tuesday we go out and chat about things for 3-4 hours. Coffee is not the main thing, it's just something to foster the conversation.
Tomorrow there's a hearing and I very much look forward to it. That gives me an opportunity to explain what we published in this site (for years) and why we published it.
It'll not be a slow week news-wise. Yesterday we publish nearly 20 posts (roughly the average) and as summer holidays approach we expect news sites - what's left of them anyway - to slow down further. We've become better at spotting and skipping LLM slop.
The good news is, it generally seems like slopfarms (sites whose whole output is LLM slop) perish. They fail to convert their junk into anything valuable (meaningless combinations of words lack value) and even search engines eventually delist them.
One topic to be discussed today is LLM slop and another is the pushers of LLM slop, like the person who pushes a hopeless (completely without merit) suit against me. I believe that his suit is merely a distraction from the fact that a $9,000,000,000 lawsuit against Microsoft is still advancing (it has been 2.5 years) and GitHub's Copilot is unable to make any more progress (it still sucks) or any money. It loses money. A lot of money. There are mass layoffs coming soon [1, 2].
To give one new example of slop, minutes ago my wife spotted this fake 'article' (100% slop) based on many real articles:
WebProNews (webpronews.com) is basically a slopfarm. We mentioned this several times before. The LLM slop "bros" are a lot like fake-money bros; they lie to people, they boast that they lie to people, and they're generally bad people, BS artists in colloquial terms. █