Slopwatch: Lots of Fake Articles From Fake "Linux" Sites and About "Linux"
This is the second "Slopwatch" of today. That means that it's a real problem. It cannot be ignored for long.
Fake "Linux" sites like LinuxSecurity are at it again:
The images added throughout are also slop.
This is really bad.
Meanwhile, Google News searches for "linux" are really bad these days (probably the same in other areas/topics, but we don't look at everything, hence we cannot comment on the general proportion of slopfarms, only in some contexts that matter to us).
Here we have a set of 3 slopfarms that produce anti-Linux FUD all the time: (Google News sends them traffic!)
Those are fake articles with slop images. Notice how little or how slightly the words vary. This site is also associated with the above two (operated by the same people, slopping in tandem):
It's pretty much the same as the other two's output, as we showed this morning. This is where Google News sends people to read 'news'....
From another slopfarm boosted by Google News this evening:
Notice the slop nonsense on the monitors. They'd probably label that "hallucination" rather than bug, error etc.
10 becomes zero and Fedora is a salad of two wrong words (IBM brands). They rely on real articles to plagiarise.
Why does Google News promote this domain that just copies other people's articles in their entirety without permission?
That makes one wonder about Google role in promoting slopfarms and/or people who plagiarise. Google says it's committed to "AI" (it means slop, not AI); that seems like an excuse to dodge accountability. █