Canonical Seems to Have Culled Some Sources of LLM Slop From Planet Ubuntu
It's like "junk food", it's not information
Recent: Planet Ubuntu - or Ubuntu Planet - Has an LLM Slop Problem (Called Faizul "Piju" 9M2PJU)
Having identified a slopfarm, and perhaps having seen our repeated complaints about this slopfarm creeping into Planet Ubuntu (which we follow over RSS), Canonical seems to have tackled the issue. The last time anything from this slopfarm crept into Planet Ubuntu was 22 days ago (June 4th, 2025).
This means that more recent slop didn't make it into Planet Ubuntu, e.g.:
As usual:
As we explained yesterday, "there is a "Moral Duty for "Linux Sites" to Speak Out Against LLM Slop" and gradually tackle the problem. Alex Oliva compared it to AIDS: "Artificial Intelligence Delusion Syndrome" (and SLOP: "Statistically Likely, Ostensibly Plausible").
Stop sending traffic to slopfarms. Whenever you send them any traffic at all, they will get a boost. It'll only encourage them and give others an incentive to do the same.
Richard Stallman calls the tools which make slopfarms "bullshit generators". I used to call them "chaffbots" and various other things.
The upside though (reason for optimism), or so it would seem based on some online zeitgeist, public opinion shifted strongly against those things and even large corporations now openly admit it was hype and there's no solid use case for those things (rebranding plagiarism as "generative", "advanced", agentic", "superintelligence" etc. is pure marketing). It's no "arms race" or "era" or "revolution" either.
Even the slop companies realise there is no financial/economic viability. Of course there isn't. They only ever rack up lots of debt. █