Once You Slop You Can't Stop and If You're a Serial Slopper Nobody Will Believe You Really Wrote an Article (Even If You Did)
It's a lot like, "if you're a serial liar people won't believe you even when you say some truth" (or "once a cheater, always a cheater")
Earlier this year we saw a "near miss" by Jack M. Germain (LinuxInsider). He decided to experiment with LLM slop and image slop; he has not done that since.
Phew!
It didn't become another unixmen.com.
There are many ridiculous articles by LLM slop about why LLM slop is OK or why LLM slop is reliable or LLM slop if a revolution or the future or arms race etc. In that sense, LLM is like a self-replicating virus that markets itself to shoehorn its lethal spread.
People aren't easily fooled by this. Not for long anyway. They develop a sense of "smell" for slop and sites that become slopfarms get ignored if not delisted. They cannot eternally hide what they've become.
As Ryan said yesterday in IRC: "I have gotten so enraged by the amount of LLM crap that there's only a few sites I even pay attention to anymore."
When you read about sites replacing writers with "AI" it just means to say they died.
Earlier this week the UK Press Gazette, which had boosted LLM slop [1, 2, 3], spoke of lawsuits over slop. To be clear, this publisher's writers still seem to be doing real work. They're not part of the problem , but the publisher fails to understand the problem.
No site that becomes a slopfarm will survive. None. In fact, sites not valued by their own maintainer will go offline much sooner. LLM slopfarms have no value. █