Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux", Slop Images in VentureBeat, Linux Foundation Spam Made With LLM Slop and Slop Images
For the third day in a row we've not finding so much slop about "Linux". Is that a sign of things improving or just temporary calm?
Either way, let's begin with the latest fake 'articles' from this slopfarm:
It's just LLM slop, but Google still shows that stuff in search results. Apparently Google doesn't mind that, either. A lot of search results nowadays point to slopfarms. Google helps build slopfarms; it calls it "Gemini".
Days ago Microsoft paid the Linux Foundation some more to have more control of it and do openwashing.
Sean Michael Kerner nowadays does a good share of Microsoft propaganda pieces (after he ran Linux Today). To make matters worse, in his latest, he's using slop images:
There's a disclosure at the bottom (context in this related post by Rashim Gupta), but it's still in bad taste. There's some more Linux Foundation noise in Google News, including this fake article:
Slop image with LLM slop below it. Then there's the Serial Slopper, having a go at BSD and GNU/Linux:
It's just more of that darn old LLM slop.
The only relief or upside - if any exists - is that the pace of slop was down a bit this week. █