Trying to Informally Police or at Least Report LLM Slop About "Linux" (and Several Related Topics)
Recent: Today's Slopwatch | Incredible! Beta'News' Now Runs Ads as 'Articles' About 'Hey Hi' (AI), Written by LLMs
The new year is fast approaching. We've set aside some goals. We already have list of URLs and writers who got caught using LLM slop to fake 'articles', so we monitor their output casually. We need to check if they're "repeat offenders" or sort of "rehabilitated" (we honestly hope and pray for the latter). At the end, one can hope, all articles about topics that matter to us will be composed fully by actual humans, even if those aren't humans whom we agree with. Better to argue with someone you dislike and disagree with than to argue with a bot, right?
Nowadays our go-to toolbox includes gptzero.me and Sapling. Maybe in the future we'll adopt some more checkers for more sources of independent (from one another) verification. We invite people to join us in calling out the culprits. Do they deserve public humiliation/condemnation? Yes, as that might be the only way to nip this in the bud. Let's work together to put an end to this practice. Some sites try to "normalise" it and make it seem "acceptable", even "commendable" or "innovative" (using grotesque straw man arguments and presumption of inevitability). Some sites get paid to do this. They try to keep the bubble inflated. They basically attack the whole Web, they don't just spread Microsoft's FUD about topics that matter to us.
LLMs are not "AI". They are IA. Not Internet Archive. Idiotic Avalanche (or words, code and so on).█