Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, BetaNews, and Linux Journal
In our last Slopwatch we showed several examples of this news about a hole, which is not severe, being spun by LLMs for machine-generated FUD. Google News even relayed some of these fake articles.
We then saw similar things in the slopfarm called Linuxsecurity:
Fake 'articles'.
Speaking of slopfarm, so far the BetaNews site (after all staff got fired from what we can gather) is 100% slopfarming. This is what they published yesterday:
So far every 'article' there is LLM slop, including this one:
It seems like a dead site walking. No real writers there.
We hope that Linux Journal will survive. All this LLM slop contributes to the assumption that a site like this, with slop images everywhere, also crossed to the "dark side" (slopfarming). An article was very recently deleted there. We don't know why.
From what we can gather, they still publish real articles, but they're reaching out to some slop for graphics and that's a slippery slope. █