Slopwatch: Google Serves to People Linux Slop and Linux FUD (Made by Bots)
Today's "Slopwatch" will be rather short. We just want to draw attention to Sunday's RC4 of the next Linux release. If people search for "Linux" news, they won't see the release announcement or LWN or any of the real news sites that covered it (there are some). Google News, not just Google search, will promote this:
And this:
It's a twin of slopfarms, which moreover use slop images. Everything there is fake, including these feature images.
Why does Google promote this in Google News?
It has also just promoted this:
It is LLM slop.
"Slopwatch" finds it difficult to ignore Google's role in encouraging LLM slop, including pages that are fake. █