Wrapping Up and Ending "Slopwatch"
An "end-of-life" improvement
The series called Slopwatch began about a year ago in response to somewhat of a surge in LLM slop and slopfarms in the "Linux" sphere.
This past month or so we see a rapid decline in the frequency of slop and some news report we recently saw confirms it's not "just us" or "just Linux" or whatever. People are fed up with slop and even some companies move on (they dump slop, to some it was a failed experiment).
In the past day or so we saw no slop in our RSS feeds. In Google News, there's only a pair of slopfarms (run by the same person/s) and the output looks lame:
Aside from those generic slop images the headlines are almost the same. It's just some nonsense from an LLM.
We'll still keep abreast of slop, but we don't envision it suddenly making a "comeback", so a series like Slopwatch may have outlived its usefulness or necessity. █