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Slopwatch: LLMs 'Write' Fake or Distorted 'News' About "Linux"

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 05, 2025,
updated Jul 05, 2025

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Today's "Slopwatch" takes a quick look at "Linux" news that is actually LLM slop disguised as news. Let's start with Linux Journal:

openSUSE Leap 16: Bridging Enterprise-Grade Stability with Community-Driven Innovation

It still looks like a slopfarm:

openSUSE Leap 16 marks a significant evolution in the openSUSE project

Will it ever end this experiment with slop? This goes into Google News, but it does not seem original at all, it's slop put together.

Now consider Ivanti. It's not Linux. We showed a slew of slopfarms actively promoted by Google News doing this, and now Linuxsecurity does too: (fake, LLM slop)

Proprietary software, blame 'Linux': Ivanti CSA Flaws Weaponized by Houken for Linux Rootkit Attacks

Let's smear what works, too:

SSH Under Siege: Hardening Your Linux Server Against Proxy Abuse (Two in one: badmouth SSH and Linux, as usual)

At least the above is excluded from Google News.

Speaking of Google News, it's still part of the problem.

There's a patch for sudo and Google News keeps showing slop.

Google's slopfarm fiesta:

12-Year-Old Sudo Vulnerability Exposes Linux Systems to Privilege Escalation

Just like the other couple of sister slopfarms (we showed these yesterday). Why can't Google reward the real sites? The above is a fake site.

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