Slopwatch: Linux Journal, Linuxsecurity, and Google News Getting Even Worse (More Slopfarms Added Which Attack Linux With Bruce-Force SPAM)
All slopfarms are parasites on the Web/Net, even offline sometimes
While it's not clear if the number of slopfarms is still growing (some perish and go offline as they lack purpose/vision), they are certainly obnoxious and they serve to distract from the real sites - i.e. the sites they plagiarise or "train on". They're moreover parasitical not just in the literal sense; they copy other people's work while leaving these people with nothing but de facto DDoS attacks, which is turn herd people towards outsourcing (e.g. Clownflare, an attack on everyone's privacy) and riddles - e.g. CAPTCHAs - that exclude many people with disabilities. One might say that slopfarms are, in that sense, responsible for attacks on blind people, on the planet (contributing to global warming), and so much more.
Linux Journal crossed to the dark side under the latest management, which probably believes it can milk the brand with low-quality garbage such as LLM slop (it looks like more worthless LLM slop has just been released; even based on the structure alone it's a giveaway). And then, "on the side", this management does reputation laundering for Bill Epsteingate. He's still trying really hard to manipulate history and he spends money on it. He managed to recruit Linus Torvalds for his reputation laundering.
Here's what the slopfarm Linuxsecurity has published:
There are even slop images throughout. Linuxsecurity is just a parasite. It's ranked in Google, but Google News does not syndicate it.
Google News has just added yet another slopfarm from the same notorious network of fake sites, making another LLM slop/spam:
It also makes near-copies of the same garbage from the sister slopfarms: (as shown earlier today)
Meanwhile the sister slopfarms, connected to the slopfarm above (same operators), make several fake pieces with slop images:
Google News is promoting all the above. It even added more. It's a festival of fake sites.
Google News is part of the same problem. Google is an LLM pusher, so it probably doesn't understand that this is a problem. It'll be hard to convince Google to tackle a problem that Google does not view as such. █