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Slopwatch: LinuxTechLab, linuxsecurity.com, "Cyber Security News" and More LLM Slopfarms

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 08, 2025

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And the "Luddites" want real articles from real people, not chatbots

This will be a quick and concise summary. We'll just assume people already know what's so terrible about LLMs and show how they're used against "Linux" this week.

Let's begin with new slop from LinuxTechLab. This page was published earlier this week:

Top Git Interview Questions and Answers Everyone Must Know (Part 1)

Sounds promising. But is this LLM slop? Most likely: (as usual this past year)

LinuxTechLab slop

Then there's the slopfarm linuxsecurity.com, whose founder does not seem involved anymore. Here's Mrs. Day posting a bunch of rubbish, apparently by prompting some LLM without actually understanding what it's spewing back to her:

Chainguard OS's Innovative Approach to System Integrity

Chainguard OS is poised to transform Linux security practices with its innovative approach to system integrity and updates

Another example:

Hunters International: The New Face of Ransomware Threats

In an alarming development for the cybersecurity community, the ransomware group Hunters International, suspected to be a rebrand of the notorious Hive ransomware

Third one on the same day:

Mastering SSH for Secure Linux Remote Server Management

Secure remote connections are essential when managing a Linux server, and one of the most widely used and trusted methods for remote server administration is Secure Shell (SSH)

How very impressive. Three 'articles'... or junk thrown out by LLMs that don't even understand what they 'say'... they just act like plagiarism blenders.

Then there's the usual pair of slopfarms that Google News likes to place at the top of search results.

Fake (LLM slop) 'articles' about a Linux rc1:

Linux 6.15-rc1 Released With Major Driver Update

Linux 6.15-rc1 Released: Better Drivers, Faster Performance

Notice they use slop images and the text too is all slop. Why does Google News keep promoting slopfarms?

The 'twin' of the FUD from the other day (the sister slopfarm):

Auto-Color Linux Backdoor: TTPs and Internal Architecture Exposed

This pair of slopfarms has just had a "go" at "Ubuntu" as well:

PoC Exploit Reveals SSH Key Exposure via Yelp Vulnerability on Ubuntu

PoC Exploit Released for Yelp Flaw that Exposes SSH Keys on Ubuntu Systems

So the Web has this bunch of slopfarms pretending to "cover" GNU/Linux. All they do is paste words from a chatbot.

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