Slopwatch: Plagiarism and Ponzi Scheme, Bubble About to Burst Entirely, Admits Goldman Sachs
Plagiarising Phoronix Media seems to be a thing in the following site, which has just emitted this fake piece:
It seems like a high proportion of Phoronix.com articles are turned into slop (LLM slop, slop images, fake author names), then promoted via Google News.
How much longer can/will Google News tolerate this? How can it not detect such obvious slopfarms?
Worse yet, having shown that slopfarms are now used to push Ponzi schemes by misusing the "Linux" brand (Linux Mark), we once again see Google News giving them a boost:
This is almost the tenth time already that Google News lets those fake news sites googlebomb "Linux" to promote a scam.
Come on, Google, who are you kidding?
Thankfully, as we pointed out this morning, a lot of this bubble won't last much longer. It's going to just "pop".
Even the slop-sponsored The Register MS has just published something about that:
Datacenter capacity is forecast to surge 50 percent by 2027 driven by AI demand, with the sector's energy consumption doubling by 2030, according to the latest research from Goldman Sachs. But the financial services biz says it's watching for signs that AI adoption may fall short of current hype.
Well, the hype that Google News and The Register MS actively participate and profit from. █