Slopwatch: Another Offending 'Linux' Site Found (Fake Articles About "Linux"), Postgres/PostgreSQL/PSQL Targeted by FUD from LLMs
For a number of years we've kept track of a site called net2. It wasn't great, it had occasional linkspam or unrelated SEO trash, but sometimes it did seem to cover GNU/Linux or some topics of relevance to us (it used to be a decent site years ago). Well, this morning something "smelled" funny - a new 'article' that didn't quite seem right:
It's all slop, as one can suspect just by looking at the text, so we won't be linking to this domain again. Detectors help confirm:
And meanwhile, of less surprise to us, LinuxSecurity.com (a FUD site made by LLMs) has spewed out this fake 'article':
Close to 100% LLM slop, very high certainty:
Back in the early 1990s there was promise/karma to the Web (after the Web had been born, then occupied by scientists). We quickly saw the Web growing. In the 2000s many newspapers already moved to the Web, at least partially. Some time later k00k sites blended in via "social control media" 'engagement' - those relied on clickbait and unlike scientists and newspapers they didn't mind what was actually true. And now we have a rotting of the old/real media, not limited to the slop above. Eventually the old media will simply die and then even the k00k sites will perish, as their real purpose was to seed discord by promotion in "alternative" channels (such as "TikTok" and "X").
There probably won't be much left of of the Web (traditional WWW/HTTP) except "webapps", which go against what the WWW originally was. It's more like Adobe Trash, i.e. proprietary assets/objects, not pages. And Clownflare is basically a 'Webapp condom' (JS) on top of normal/traditional pages. It acts as a malicious gatekeeper. So the future of the Web looks not too bright, at risk of generalisations. █