Slopwatch: Google News Infested With Slop (About Half of the Results for "Linux" Today)
This afternoon's Slopwatch is (almost) all about Google News despite my suspicion that all the recent posts in LinuxConfig.org are partly (not purely) BS. They're mostly if not entirely LLM slop. My impression is that the majority is, but it's mildly edited and reformatted by the editor:
We still hope that LinuxConfig.org will "come around" and get back to writing proper articles. It's possible. We mentioned this before.
Now, on to Google News, the hub of LLM slop, where slopfarms gain fame and exposure. Even at the expense of the sites they are plagiarising (Google omits the originals, gives the limelight to ripoff artists).
Let's start with this one, which has penetrated Google News for nearly a year already with fake text donning a fake image for every fake text:
"Kali Linux" in the news. Except it's not news, it's slop.
How about this one from a slopfarm that uses fake author names to accompany fake texts with fake images?
Or this slopfarm:
The article's title is interesting, but it's slop with fake images, as usual.
This is the sort of junk one finds when looking for "Linux" in Google News these days.
The only thing that saddens me more than the state of the Web right now is the death of a local legend, Ricky Hatton. How many LLM slop pieces are being 'written' about him right now? For sure many thousands! What % of people will read slop about him? █