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Slopwatch: Google News is Slop, Google News is Plagiarism, Google News is Dying

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 16, 2025

Last month: Google News is Dying: Most of Its Top Stories Now Are LLM Slop With Slop Images (i.e. 100% Fake 'Content')

Today we'll just present 10 new examples of LLM slop with slop images. All are being promoted and elevated in status (Google News) by Google.

Ubuntu attacked by slopfarms:

Notice the letters going all wrong in the slop:

Plagiarism against Phoronix, as usual:

Anti-Linux LLM slop with slop images:

Another slopfarm:

Its sister slopfarm:

And a third one operated by the same people (hardly any variation either):

All the above get promoted as "Ubuntu" and "Linux" news today. They're 100% fake.

Google is off the rails. █

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