Slopwatch: Google Helps Plagiarism and Sends Traffic to Ripoff Artists
Today's Slopwatch is short and it will be about Google News, which helps propel cheaters, plagiarists and slopfarms (basically like spamfarms but with LLM slop and usually slop images too).
Google has just been sued again over slop, but not for the same reasons.
First, despite Linux Journal having become a spamfarm/slopfarm, Google News links to this:
Even the structure alone makes it abundantly easy to know what LLM made it.
How about this slop image with slop text and fake author name:
It's just a spamfarm/slopfarm. It also made this some hours ago:
As usual, this spamfarm/slopfarm rips off many Phoronix articles. This one:
I am sure that Michael Larabel is well aware of - and very unhappy about - what they're doing. Google News is feeding the leeches. Almost 20 years ago when Phoronix was new I chatted with Larabel about sites that were imitating his (including "phorolinux" or something like that; it became defunct years later). Google News didn't help such sites.
Watch what Google News is promoting today:
It's fake and yesterday we showed other spamfarms/slopfarms promoting that same "Sindoor" canard.
That Google as a company helps spamfarms is noteworthy. Google is a wilful booster of plagiarism (detecting such spamfarms is really quite easy). █