Slopwatch: Sloppy Brian, Brittany Slop, and General Observations
Since we've criticised some sites (especially those that habitually cover "Linux") for "pivoting to slop" we can see they improve a bit by no longer publishing LLM slop, but we keep them under regular observation and won't name them right now. The general aim here (in "Slopwatch" and beyond) is to discourage this sort of "pivot", which may seem seductive but is in fact very destructive and regrettable.
Yesterday we saw sloppy Brian slopping away at existing articles to make this "post" (ad with slop) in BetaNoise:
LLP slop, as usual:
Another Serial Slopper (SS), Day, did the same a pair of slopfarms did a day earlier (covered in the last Slopwatch). They all googlebomb "PFire 2.29" with fake articles:
Yes, of course it's not a real article.
Neither is this one:
There are some real articles about it (we linked to 3 yesterday), but this is not one of those.
If the slopfarms and SS-frenzy can be "contained" (repeat offenders being in only a few sites), then Slopwatch has a positive effect. They do pay attention to it [1, 2, 3] because nobody (site or person) wants to be called a "cheater" or "plagiarist".
Creative people don't need slop; there's just nothing good about it, slop appeals to lazy people careless about quality. █