Tons of Anti-Linux 'Articles' Published by Bots (LLMs), Maybe Microsoft's
Electropages, cybersecuritynews.com, gbhackers.com and others among the Serial Sloppers (SSs).
TODAY we used Roy and Rianne's Righteously Royalty-free RSS Reader (R.R.R.R.R.R.) to look for "Linux" news, only to find loads of WSL 'spam' (googlebombing "Linux" to promote Windows) and misleading FUD. Upon closer inspection, all this FUD turned out to be LLM garbage, i.e. fake articles or chaff. Here's one such 'article':
Of course if it 'feels' like nonsense (the text in this case barely made any sense!), then it's time to test for familiar patterns. So we passed it through some scrutinisers, whereupon the scrutiny was rather certain:
More LLM slop:
The whole 'article' is just a words salad. Likewise, hours apart, LLM slop: (this one targeting "Linux" and "SSH")
100% fake 'article'.
Also LLM slop: (notice the similarity/resemblance to the above; it's no coincidence, it's part of the same FUD network, always composed by slop)
So the pattern seems increasingly clear; a lot of anti-Linux 'articles' are made by bots. Is that Microsoft's ChatGPT?
This LLM slop site also promotes Windows today... under the guise of "Linux" and "Ubuntu":
It's a fake 'article'. Just like Fagioli's.
How many WSL 'articles' are just spewed out with permutations by Microsoft-controlled chatbots? Some of the articles from Microsoft-connected sites try to steer people interested in Linux into or towards Windows (WSL) [1-2], even conflating the two [3]. Perhaps we'll give more recent examples tomorrow.
The real news (to us) is that Electropages also became a slopfarm and entered our blacklist. How many sites will die this way?
This issue isn't limited to Linux. Based on this article, Yle heads in an eerily similar trajectory. A rough summary suggests: "The editing will 1) be moved out of the country, 2) be turned over to "AI", 3) [see] reduction in the number of journalists (according to a TV interview parallel to the above link)".
As someone put it, it is "a shutdown in all but name" because instead of exiting with some dignity they experiment with bots. It'll never work. Why even bother? █
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