Slopwatch: BetaNoise (BetaNews), LinuxSecurity, and Slopfarms Still Promoted by Google News
Today we'll keep it short and to the point. The primary goal is to demonstrate the problem persists and to also name the main culprits or Serial Sloppers, starting with the 'usual suspect':
No, he's way to lazy to write his own text:
Of course LinuxSecurity is also producing lots of LLM slop. It's googlebombing "security" (and usually "linux") with LLM slop:
Real article? Nope!
This one is also a diarrhoea of text:
They throw in some images and pretend this was ever original or written properly:
The main goal here it to suck in traffic, away from actual (real, authentic) articles. Many exist. The above site just plagiarises them using a "blender" of words that ingests other people's work.
Speaking of which, there's some real news about CVE-2024-26809, which isn't so severe, but be sure LLM slop will take it out of context and this week Google News is sending traffic to this slopfarm:
And its sister slopfarm: (they operate in tandem)
The above images are also slop. These slopfarms produce nothing real, it's pure garbage. Same for this:
There are some real articles about this, but the above is slop. █