Protecting GNU/Linux-Centric Journalism From Serial Sloppers
Not many people cover the topic; those who do are suffering from an epidemic of state-of-the-art plagiarism
Last month the sister site stopped linking to Linuxiac, seeing that Linuxiac had begun experimenting with LLM slop (which the editor of Linuxiac didn't deny when I asked him about it). We've since then observed to see if things were improving. With few exceptions, it seems like things did in fact improve.
Every now and then a site might 'experiment' with LLM slop, wrongly thinking it is a time-saving "innovation" rather than low-grade nonsense, some might say cheating (like plagiarising other people's work, using bots).
Here's Google News propping up a slopfarm yesterday; the site uses LLM slop and slop images to spread FUD about both SSH and "Linux": (it also uses the word "backdoor")
Fake article, fake premise. Why does Google News still promote this?
More people in the community ought to be vigilant and sensitive to this sort of stuff. 9to5Linux, for instance, has long complained about Serial Sloppers ripping off its stories. LLM slop discourage honest journalists. 9to5Linux published only one story in the past 5 days (see below). It feels like it's being robbed; the other day we noticed Slashdot sending traffic to a slopfarm of a Serial Slopper again. Unoriginal slop is taking away traffic from the people who did all the real work. █
