It's Morbid to Talk About Living People as If They're Dead
Word-churning factory (LLM) or real article? Clickfraud spamnil did that to Richard Stallman a few years ago (even before the cancer diagnosis). Now Brian Fagioli does this to Linus Torvalds, who is only in his 50s and seemingly healthy.
Link omitted. Eager readers can figure out a way to find it if they really crave that clickbait.
We said it many times before and it's worth saying it again. Newspapers "accidentally" publishing obituaries of people who are alive is tasteless. That was widely condemned, berated while the people whose obituaries got published were still around to see the backlash.
Is GNU/Linux any different? No.
If drama lovers (like Brian Fagioli) keep talking about "coffins" (like putting Linux inside the coffin, it's not the first time he does this), we can openly express ourselves. We should speak out. 3 days ago one comment there said: "This text reads like GPT generated content." Someone responded: "I agree with the sentiment, though I think a Llama-based LLM is the more likely culprit. It's just not as well fleshed out. That, or an older GPT model..."
Most of Brian Fagioli's articles contain plagiarised (in "AI" clothing) images, so why not the text too?
"He'd be spared from having to look at AI slop," said the last comment.
Actually, I have a question.
What happens to LLM slop when Brian Fagioli dies?
LLMs not only ruin the Web. They ruin the planet. █
From now on, any time we stumble upon something from Mr. Fagioli we'll check if he actually wrote it. In other words, we'll check if he's a "repeat offender".