Slopfarms Which Take Real Articles About GNU/Linux and Turn Them Into Copycats Which Are False
Related:
- Slashdot Media Turned Linux Journal Into a Slopfarm and Now Slashdot Actively Promotes Anti-Linux Slopfarms
- Brian Fagioli Created Another Slopfarm Targeting "Linux" After BetaNews Became a Slopfarm of Phantom Accounts and Pseudonyms
- It Looks Like BetaNews' Managing Editor Wayne Williams is Taking Over From Fagioli After Repeat Pattern of LLM Slop (State-of-the-Art Plagiarism) About "Linux"
Copycat sites are not a new problem. Even before the LLM hype those were quite common. Some of them used translation tools to rephrase or mildly "edit" text (e.g. translation from Russian to English or from English to some language, then back to English) and some of them mixed and matched sentences from many sites, passing off the ripoffs as "fair use" with neither attribution nor human supervision. Some people called them "spamfarms".
Nowadays there are some phonies who think that "hey hi" (they mean slop) is a skill and making a slopfarm is some fantastic accomplishment. Such is the case with the Serial Slopper, Fagioli. Here's the latest:
Of course those are not original:
Seeing that slopfarms tend to fail badly, as human audiences would not look for and naturally would have no genuine interest in reading slop (more so if they're made aware that it's slop), we sort of guess slopfarms will perish over time. As the LLM companies aren't financially viable, the tools that slopfarms rely on it may no longer be available. █