Slopwatch: Fake Articles About Linux 6.17 and Microsoft Meddling in Linux Development
Slopwatch focuses on the impact of LLM slop and slopfarms on Linux. Consider these 3 (so far, there will be lots more) pages about Linux 6.17 being released some hours ago. The Serial Slopper has already thrown LLMs slop out there:
Unable to write about technical topics, he lets LLMs compose a bunch of stuff using other people's original work.
Then consider this:
Microsoft makes a mess inside Linux, the kernel, as usual. Then it 'fixes' it. Then a notorious slopfarm, promoted by Google News, shows up with this: (plagiarising Phoronix, as usual)
Systemd is increasingly a Microsoft project, not just developed using proprietary software (Microsoft GitHub) but also Microsoft staff.
10 days ago we published "Microsoft E.E.E.: Git Will Now (or Very Soon) Fully Depend on Rust, Which is Controlled by Microsoft" and we still find lots of LLM slop produced to hail Rust.
Either way, today's Slopwatch is short because the picks are from Sunday. █