The State of Slopfarms
Slopfarms or LLM slopfarms are a menace and a problem on the Web. Slopfarms can also be sites that use slop images, i.e. images produced (computer-generated) by plagiarism blenders, which neither receive consent nor any explicit permission to rip off their atomic parts (inputs that they fuse together for pseudo-originals).
In practice, many sites that use slop images also use slop for text. It's a sort of symbiotic relationship and it follows a general abandonment of ethics or principles of fairness.
We still keep abreast of 5-6 slopfarms with "Linux" in their names. Here is a slopfarms that used to cover "Linux" but rarely does so anymore:
We've meanwhile noticed that The Register MS seems to have resorted to using slop images for 'articles':
It's not hard to see some slop in the mix (above). We already caught The Register MS using slop for its text sometimes.
Recently we noticed that even the hired guns (connected to death threats against me; the police is still investigating these, they told me so on Friday) use slop. They've been using a lot of slop (plagiarism by machine) images in their blog posts lately - as if they cannot afford stock imagery - typically followed by LLM slop filler. Slopfest:
Maybe that says something about their financial situation. █