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Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity.com Slopfarm and Slopfarms Propped Up by Google News

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 18, 2025

Slopfarms are a big problem. They need to be identified and flagged. As someone has just put it (many good points in there): "As LLM slop is foisted onto the WWW in place of knowledge and real content, it now gets ingested and processed by other LLMs, creating a sort of ouroboros of crap."

Take a look at the latest fake 'articles' in LinuxSecurity.com:

It's just machine-generated FUD about Linux; even ImageMagick bugs are sort of blamed on "Linux".

That's what con artists that operate slopfarms do, maybe by intention.

When one searches Google News for "Linux" this morning one gets 3 slopfarms producing fake 'articles' with slop images (all are operated by the same people, repeating the same nonsense with word permutation):

A Google News search for "Linux" yields more than 10% slopfarms; all are run by the same people.

What does that tell us about Google News and about Google?

Remember that Google itself is a promoter of slop.

Under the same "Gemini" (which it "stole" or "googlebombed"), Google offers slop tools. █

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