ABC, the American National Broadcaster, "Now Publishes Slop"
"Heads up: ABC now publishes slop" - Techrights associate
"Slopwatch" has been abandoned. Today we saw no LLM slop about "linux" or "ubuntu" in Google News and that is a relief. We did, however, find one new piece of slop in linuxsecurity.com, linuxteck.com (slopfarm) issued 4 fake articles in one day, and ubuntupit.com also had 4 pieces of slop in one day. linuxiac.com is a mix of slop and human editing.
Looking outside "linux" or "ubuntu" or all those 'geeky things', we see an avalanche which can result of the end of online news. This ABC story discloses: "This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Scripps editorial team..."
This string is still possible to find in Google Search, but the article they present now is from AP:
Response to backlash? What exactly is going on there?
It's a big deal because "ABC is larger than just a single site," an associate said, "ABC was a national broadcaster."
In our experience, sites that experiment with slop are sites that will die with slop, just like Buzzfeed (recent example) and so many others. They do not "adopt" or "pivot" to it, they die with it. Slop kills. It's self-harming.
If the "big media" absorbs slop, it'll no longer be trusted and therefore not read/watched by the public. █