Will 2025 Bring Recovery of News Sites or Just More LLM Slop? Probably the Latter.
This is Beta'News' right now: (front page!)
Yes, it's pure garbage generated by machine (almost 100% of the latest "stories" are like this):
SOME charlatans and liars who label themselves "journalists" have managed to convince themselves that "prompting" what RMS rightly dubbed "bullshit generators" is an "art" or "craft" or a "reporting" "skill". They call the bullshit "intelligence". They've therefore decided to turn former news sites into de facto spamfarms, hoping to become the next "BNN Breaking".
So far we've seen 7 full days of 2025 and LLM slop is still a problem. Having covered the latest Microsoft layoffs (linking to the original, giving credit), we went to check Google News for more coverage and it returned this slop by "HRK News Bureau": (when the author is "News Bureau" it's a red flag already)
It just parrots many outdated things. Cooked by an LLM. Maybe the headline is the actual text used to prompt the LLM.
The Web is deteriorating. Geminispace does not have LLM trash (yet). The word "Gemini" is misused by Google to seed confusion and promote its own "bullshit generator" (formerly "Bard"). █