Unixmen Seems to Have Died After Turning Into a Slopfarm and Spamfarm, Is LinuxSecurity.com Next?
ABOUT a month ago we highlighted Unixmen sinking to new lows. It looks like the SPAM from "serwarSEO" has since then been deleted. However, it seems like the site as a whole also stopped:
Did Unixmen decide that it had gone too far? We hope Unixmen can become (again) what it was a decade ago. It used to be a useful site written by humans, not SEO SPAM (or linkspam) and LLM slop.
Speaking of LLM slop, this is one of the two fake articles (all of them!) in LinuxSecurity.com yesterday:
Not a chance.
Now that there's some coverage of a stable Debian release there may be some more "training data" (reporting) to plagiarise by LLMs:
It's not a real article, it's garbage:
Another day, another LLM slopfest from LinuxSecurity.com.
Better to not publish anything at all than to resort to fake garbage.
And speaking of garbage, since Sam stopped writing for iTWire (after about 18 years!) it looks like the site is full of puff pieces and paid placements, not journalism. It's not what it used to be. A random example from the front page:
Lots of "hey hi" nonsense and yet no real substance. █
Update: Just a few minutes after finalising this article Mr. Fagioli went back to his old ways:
100% LLP slop (full certainty):
The top of the Beta'News' Web site (under "Latest Technology News") is slop: