Adopting LLM Slop is Still Suicide
Suicide (in the literal sense) is also linked to adoption of chatbots
Didn't even check that the slop image (or text) made sense!!!
Many sites that I used to link to for decades (they were very good!) have turned into slopfarms. Some, instead, became idle or went offline (that latter option is far more honorable than becoming a slopfarm like freenode.net/org). I no longer try to name those site (to 'shame' them) because it would give them more publicity. I caught two such sites yesterday alone.
Last week a PR or media person told Press Gazette that the slop deluge (or slop-avalanche) will benefit authentic sites as people crave and are willing to pay for integrity in journalism and for honest, original reporting, not slop plagiarism.
Yesterday I think we had the best traffic level in years and it wasn't because of any single (particular) article going "viral". This was very assuring as I intend to keep writing for the next 40 years (like my mentor, Chris) provided I live that long and I generally see slop not as competition; rather, it's how 'rival' sites dig their own graves.
The issue with the Web, in general, is the volume of bot requests, which increases hosting (and by extension operational) costs. That's why we strongly urge sites to become static and do it the K.I.S.S. (cheap) way. Nobody truly adores your bloat!
If you still tolerate a site that does a 'little' slop, then you take a growing risk. The moment a site uses even "just a little hey hi" is the moment everything else becomes suspect because "once you slop you cannot stop". That's based on long-observed patterns, akin to "once a cheater, always a cheater".
In the domain of code it is the same. Coders of true integrity will outlive and outlast the slop mania. People who forget how to code and instead "master" slopping tools will become irrelevant. █