Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, WebProNews, and Google News Boosting Slopfarms as 'News'
Half a day ago we published a Slopwatch installment and things got so bad that we already produce another one.
Let's start with a slopfarm ripping off the originals about Oracle Linux 10:
There are 3 slop images throughout this ludicrous sea of LLM garbage. It's getting worse over time. It's slop on autopilot, combining fake images with fake text.
Then, the slopfarm WebProNews emitted a pair of LLM slop pieces with slop images for or about Canonical:
Google News gave visibility to the above slopfarm by linking to both (as shown in the above screenshots). It moreover boosted another slopfarm, whose sister slopfarm it boosted earlier today about the same topic.
Neither the text nor the image are real. They're slop.
People who don't recognise the slopfarms and don't know which sites are fake would struggle to understand what's really going on. █