If Your Web Site is Run by Bots, Eventually Nobody Will 'Read' It Except Bots (People Don't Want to Read Slop)
Once people realise that a site that they read is a slopfarm, is becoming a slopfarm, or became a slopfarm quite a while back they feel cheated. They feel like they wasted time not reading anything from an actual author but low-quality, bland junk, complete with errors, even if it seemed grammatically sound. Knowledge or insight were basically faked.
Slopfarms such as this one are virtually never linked to anymore. When we pointed out to LXer, for instance, that this site was slop (some time last year) they stopped linking to it:
Eventually people learn from mistakes.
Speaking of LXer, its top story (at the top of the front page right now) is LLM slop.
Eventually people learn and adapt. Slopfarm get mentally blacklisted and never visited or linked to again. Some robots on the Web might still scan them, but nobody will truly read, just "consume" some junk.
Speaking of junk, almost 3 days have passed since BetaNews published anything. It was slop. Nobody even bothers to comment on it anymore.
BetaNews is basically a dead site because it chose to become a slopfarm and over time this fools fewer and fewer people. They move on to real news sites, composed by real people.
Consider the fate of Sports Illustrated To quote a BBC article from 2023:
The company alleged that AdVon Commerce had allowed its writers to use pseudonyms "in certain articles" to protect their privacy, however. That was why the AI-generated pictures were used and the author names cannot be found elsewhere on the internet.This incident at Sports Illustrated comes as concern grows in the media world that generative artificial intelligence could cheaply replace journalists and potentially spread misinformation. Various newsrooms have experimented with AI or released guidelines for employees and audiences to explain their approach towards it.
Some newsrooms have made headlines, however, after publishing AI articles that included errors or falsehoods. Others gained attention for not marking stories as AI generated.
Numerous Sports Illustrated staff said on social media that they were appalled by the findings in Futurist's report, particularly as Arena Group has made large cuts to staff in recent years.
Mitch Goldich, an editor at Sports Illustrated who leads the union, said the magazine had done "real damage to the credibility of the hardworking humans I have been honored to work with for the past 9 years".
He changed his name on X to "Mitch Goldich (human)" to further emphasise the point.
Since then many sites have repeated the same mistakes as Sports Illustrated, which meant they tarnished the brands, lost the trust, and lost all the audience. Many of these sites lost the will to "live" (stay online). It was too late to go back in time, as both the brand and the trust were dead. █