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Slopwatch: Slow Slop Day

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 13, 2025

Today's Slopwatch is relatively short, as we did not find many new examples of slop which target "Linux" or similar topics.

We start with the Serial Slopper Brittany Day, who made this fake article that's meant to make "Linux" sound scary and dangerous (so they can use their SEO spam to sell services):

Slop or fake: Fedora 44 vs. Linux Kernel Exploits: Inside the Move to Strengthen Linux Security Settings

In Google News today we see two slopfarms, though for sure there are more that we are not seeing at this time. This one is slop about slop:

Slop or fake: AI-powered Pentesting Tool ‘Villager’ Combines Kali Linux Tools with DeepSeek AI for Automated Attacks

And this seems more like SEO poison meant to show LLM slop:

Slop or fake: New Node.js Malware Evades AV, Steals Crypto on macOS, Windows, Linux

As usual, fake text, fake images, fake author/s.

Finally, the Serial Slopper Brian Fagioli had LLMs assigned to produce another fake 'article' for him:

Slop or fake: Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 ‘Gigi’ enters development

This distracts from or may take traffic away from the original articles, actually written by actual people.

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