The Bots Never Sleep: In The Weekends, Slopfarms Dominate Google News, Majority of Entries in Google Are Fake Articles About 'Linux'
We are rather sick and tired of seeing slopfarms and we try to prevent more sites turning to LLM slop. We closely monitor Linuxiac to see if it decides to quit doing it or still has no remorse. We also observe some slopfarms that quietly perish (they become inactive, they give up).
Today we saw the Linux Journal slopfarm in a couple of places. It produced a fake article with a fake image, then Google News gave it extra visibility:
LLM slop. Pure garbage. Nothing to see here. Same for the LinuxSecurity slopfarm:
Lots of slop images and bland text. Even without a checker or a scan (using tools) it's abundantly obvious this is LLM output pretending to be an article.
The typical Linux and SSH FUD generated by bots for a notorious slopfarm:
Of course Google News propelled this machine-generated FUD into "news" results. Worse yet, today (Saturday) eight results were fake 'articles' from the webpronews slopfarm:
They're turning Phoronix pages into something even more spammy and certainly robotic with slop images. Due to the above (8 results) the majority of results for "linux" news today is fake stuff.
Google is fast becoming an ocean of plagiarism; the same goes for Google News, which was supposed to have extra quality control. █