Slopwatch: "Google News" is Fast Becoming a Mashup of Slopfarms, Linux Journal ("LJ") is a Dump of LLM Slop
Today's second batch of Slopwatch (yes, second) is also short, even shorter than the first one.
Let's begin with Linux Journal, one of the earlier/est magazines and sites about "Linux" (after they started calling GNU and Linux just "Linux"). People who used to write for "LJ" (as they still call it) report that their old articles in that site are vanishing. Worry not, however, as George (if that's a real name/person) keeps volleying LLM slop, sometimes with slop images. This is his latest:
Way to trash LJ's reputation. One slop piece at a time...
LJ has become mostly a slopfarm.
Here's one that's almost 100% slopfarm. It's called LinuxSecurity and it has this fake new 'article':
They casually toss slop images into their fake 'articles' these days (to accompany the fake text). No sane person would wish to read such drivel. But the aim is to game search engines (keyword stuffing) and to entice people to the business (their own), so it's basically like SEO SPAM. Spamfarm, but with slop.
Looking at "linux" in Google News, we find the following today:
And another notorious slopfarm that has truly flooded Google News for months already: (it's rather shocking that Google hasn't noticed or flagged it, then accordingly deranked/delisted it)
As usual, LLM slop, slop images, fake author names.
Like lazy Fagioli a few hours earlier, they're plagiarising these articles.
Well done, Google News. Google itself can flourish as a slopfarm mashup. █