Slopwatch: Slopfarms That 'Hallucinate' (Yield Falsehoods) Cited as Credible Sources and Microsoft Media Gaslighting Everybody
The "Slopwatch" of the day will be short today. We've only just noticed that someone in a real news site with a real article cites LLM slop as a credible source. "GBHackers News" is a slopfarm, yet this site deems it a real source and bases everything on the slop. The author got conned into relaying slop by hand!
This is one new example of LLM slop from what the above calls "GBHackers News" (slopfarm):
And the sister slopfarm, minutes or hours apart:
Part of the problem is, Google News keeps linking to these two slopfarms. Then, actual authors might end up reading slop and even basing articles on that slop.
Here's some more slop plagiarism from the Serial Slopper, turning real material into a words salad:
More LLM slop:
An associate has meanwhile pointed out that this site says: "Developers at Microsoft Build question their future relevance" (based on a malicious myth [1, 2]).
"As countless bloggers have already observed," the associate says, "the easy part of coding is that of actually writing the code. However, the noise about "AI" (actually LLMs which are not AI) distracts from the real scope of the question of whether Microsoft is relevant. tldr; Microsoft stopped being relevant as a technology decades ago, and only hangs on as a lobbying entity / quasi-religious political movement..."
As people from inside Microsoft joked, even if it was true that 30% of the code there was bot-generated (which they strongly doubt), it would only serve to show how shoddy Microsoft's products have become. █