Why Slop Will Flop - Part I - Slop Fatigue Prevalent
How Cory Doctorow put it this week:
Last year we ran "Slopwatch" for many days and weeks. We had started that in 2024 and by the end of 2025 there was already not enough we could collate/find to make up an installment. Now, in March 2026, we see no slop in Linux-focused RSS feeds and looking for "linux" in Google News, in the past two days we only saw two links to one slopfarm:
The slopfarm of the Serial Slopper (Fagioli) had only "Nitrux 6 proves the Linux desktop is ready to replace Windows 11" (LLM slop), but it's hardly visible anywhere. He got fired by an actual visible site after he had cheated and slopped.
What Cory chose for Pluralistic's headline really sums it up rather well: "No one wants to read your AI slop"
See, sooner or later people (audiences of colleagues) find out and as soon as they find out you are slopping, they will lose interest. Trust is immediately gone. Watch what happened to Benj Edwards. Slop got him fired.
Seeing how scarce slop became (not hard to detect, just too risky to use in a news sites), we'll focus on Linux-centric topics and track the demise of the very ugly plagiarism phenomenon, which seems to have begun spreading to the legal occupation (once lawyers get caught their career might be finished). â–ˆ