LLM Slop With "Linux" in the Domain Names
Articles about "Linux" are not too hard to find (Valnet produces lots of good articles about "Linux" every day). But telling apart fakes from authentic isn't easy unless one recognises the domains.
For instance, something called "Linux Journal" - one of the earliest magazines about "Linux" and a very genuine one for many years - fell into the lap of Slashdot Media. The new owner of Slashdot Media turned the above into a slopfarm. Google News links to this thing today:
Fake article with the obligatory buzzwords. One might think it makes sense, but the author has LLMs spewing out these words. When someone else - typically a large and dishonest company - 'holds your pen' for you the output is not yours. And it lacks sense/value, it's just a parrot of miscellaneous, disjoint inputs. Acquired and reproduced poorly, without permission!
This is becoming a pain and a problem also in the arts and in software engineering. See for example "why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions" (by a longtime critic of slop; he published a book about it).
Now that "Linux 7" (7.0) reaches its fourth RC of course the slopfarm linuxteck.com can't help making some slop about it. We also saw two more pieces of slop from linuxsecurity.com ("Linux Kernel eBPF Monitoring Rootkit Threats and Evasion Techniques" and "Rethinking Data Protection in Modern Linux Cloud Environments"), but those sites don't interest us much. They're a lost cause and will go offline sooner or later as neither authors nor readers care about their slop. █