Under the Pen Name "John O'Donnell" (LLM Slop, Not Real Article or Author) LinuxLinks Pushes Spammy Page
This seems like a very rare thing. But it happened some hours ago. We honoured the site some months ago; will it let us down?
Almost all the (real) articles are by Steve Emms, e.g.: (latest shown below)
So what is this thing?
LLM slop:
Hopefully they won't ruin the entire site in this way. Sometimes they experiment; experiments can go out of control.
Earlier today we wrote about Google News slop. We said it had elevated LLM slop to top of results, showing either incompetence or neglect by Google. We've therefore demoted Google News, accordingly.
An associate explained "there are some relevant articles in today's batch of links," as the problem is a lot bigger than Google News or Google in general.
Pivot to AI wrote about Google: "What if we made a search engine so good that our company name became the verb for searching? And then — get this — we replaced the search engine with a robot with a concussion?"
The Web as a whole is being ruined by Serial Sloppers. It's also getting harder to trust things on the Web. Everything becomes suspicious by default.
They say Digg (where I was ranked 17th when the site was in its prime) is making a comeback, but some press reports about it say they will embrace "AI", which probably means LLM slop with all the inherent bias. An associate recalls that "Digg only ever auto-blocked ODF content, no matter who tried. I will never, ever forgive them that."
"Their auto-downvoting came at a very crucial crossroads and contributed to preventing a universal productivity suite file format from getting established. Those Microsofters' attempt at resurrecting the site only means (to me at least) that they aim to sell propaganda-as-a-service."
Sadly, for many companies out there on the Web, "propaganda-as-a-service" is the new or sole (remaining) business model. So we can treat them with that expectation in mind. █