Just Trying to Keep Web Sites Honest (Journalistic Integrity)
While we constantly complain about LLM slop in "Slopwatch" and in other articles, there is also a glimmer of hope. This morning we posted some links about investors (or shareholders) pulling out of the "hey hi" (slop) bubble and an hour ago I saw the national German media saying "slop" in a headline. It is reassuring to witness and very good to see the term "slop" adopted by MSM instead of deliberately-misleading buzzwords like "hey hi". It's actually the first time I see this in MSM, which DW would fall under.
Apropos hope, the latest articles in LinuxIac are real, not LLM slop, and one can see real work was put into making them. Moreover, there are fewer in total, as there are no shortcuts. Contacting Bobby and highlighting the issue hopefully contributed towards this outcome. We'll still keep an eye on LinuxIac. We just hope Bobby realised he had been repelling his very own supporters by experimenting with slop.
People are getting sick and tired of what the media has falsely called "hey hi" (as an active, sponsored, unscrupulous participant in the hype-making campaigns). The negative media coverage is becoming "the normal" these days:
Social control media is becoming fertile experimentation ground for getting people to engage with bots (chatbots), as the truth of the matter is, as reported in reputable sites this past week, social control networks are dying and they try to find salvation in chatbots, hoping they can somehow become the "next big thing" (nope, both for economic reasons and practical reasons). Some pundits find out many "engagements" (users, comments, clicks) are fake, bot-driven, then speak out about it. So it's doomed to fail. █