Plagiarism With LLM Slop: Hindustan Times (HT Digital Streams Limited) Has Become a Slop Factory/Hub
Earlier this year we wrote about some of the most mainstream (or largest) Indian networks that publish in English resorting to cheating, e.g.:
- The Death of The Economic Times (India Times): LLM Slop Presented as 'Articles', Containing Errors and Revisionism
- The Times Group (and The Times of India) Basically Died Again
- Times of India and India.com Are Clickbait and LLM Slop
- 'India Today' is a Slopfarm, Sometimes 'Covering' "Linux" With Slop Images
HT Digital Streams Limited is not part of the above publishers, but it's also no better than them.
Now it takes an actual report from BI (which itself recently got caught publishing LLM slop) to make this 'article':
It just rephrases the original; one needn't speak English, just prompt some LLMs:
"Hindustan Times is one of the largest newspapers in India by circulation," says Wikipedia, but it cannot bother doing original articles or even writing its own text. It uses LLM slop. What a disgrace.
This is more evidence of the Web's linear decline (if not quadratic). Will the Web recover after the LLM bubble 'pops'? Can it? █
"It [slop] feeds on the work of others without feeding anything back. And if this trend continues, the very content it depends on — real reporting, deep analysis, authentic reviews — will rot away. What’s left will be a hall of mirrors: summaries of…"