Slop Fatigue
Only Linux Journal is seen pushing LLM slop today/yesterday
"Slop" became a widely used term, even a word "of the year". So that means it's now widely understood or broadly recognised (people know what you mean when you say "slop"). We used to say "chaff" and all sorts of other things (I sort of 'coined' the "hey hi" joke nearly half a decade ago while crossing the road; Microsoft was already fabricating the "AI" thing way back then, it even ran ads that said "AI").
Today, as I checked my RSS feeds, I only found one single example of slop. It's from Slashdot Media, which bought Linux Journal only to (eventually) turn it into a slopfarm.
Slopwatch seems dead already. I very much doubt there will ever (again) be enough material for a whole installment unless it becomes a weekly thing (rarer occurrence, not daily).
There are many signs out there - even reports from established and reputable sites - saying that "AI" (as they call it) usage is declining and businesses realise it won't be getting any better. Companies like IBM/Red Hat try to impose it on staff [1, 2], but this is wishful thinking, one might say desperate acts by companies that try to somehow fulfil their own prophecies.
People are pushing back against slop in codebases and against sites that use any kind of slop.
Remember UbuntuPIT? It remains practically dead (online but not active) after its experiments with LLM slop. The same will happen to Linux Journal. Just you wait and watch! LinuxSecurity, another slopfarm, is already on its last foot. The Serial Slopper Brian Fagioli is just pumping out slop about slop (yes, recursive nonsense). █