Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, Linux Journal (Slashdot Media), UbuntuPIT, and Google News (Noise)
This evening's Slopwatch starts with one of the most ludicrous slopfarms out there (LinuxSecurity), one that went from real author names to pseudonyms about a month ago:
It does not even remotely look or "smell" like a real article. The same goes for the following in Linux Journal, which once upon a time was an excellent site and magazine with large circulation. Now it's just some author spewing out mindless LLM slop:
Linux Journal is owned (and purged) by Slashdot Media, which feeds other slopfarms. How about UbuntuPIT? It feels like it's trying to improve a bit (after getting caught), but we still see slop thrown into the mix, e.g. here:
There are slop summarisers in the body. That has all the characteristics of LLM slop.
Over in Google News, which has gotten really bad, a triplet of slopfarms all show up when searching for "linux". Notice the headlines (aside from the slop images):
How can Google not detect these as 1) duplicates and 2) slopfarms?
At least they say "GNU/Linux", but eBPF isn't GNU.
Is Google News really that understaffed after the mass layoffs 2 years ago?
It also links to this slopfarm right now:
It's difficult to believe that a company as large as Google cannot detect that this is a slopfarm.
So one can deduce Google et al just don't really care about egregious plagiarism. █