Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, linuxconfig.org, and Plagiarised Phoronix
This latest Slopwatch will be quite short, starting with a pattern we've long noticed about "NPM" (Microsoft) taking the blame or some particular developers named, even if it happens on Microsoft's watch and it is in fact Microsoft transmitting malware to people's servers and other devices:
We've meanwhile also noticed that Lucas Rees (linuxconfig.org) experiments/dabbles in a new kind of slop image generator to complement the LLM slop, which is what his Web site became infested with this year (he seems to be editing and reformatting slop, but it's still slop):
Another new fake:
Aside from the slop images the structure of the text is a giveaway. The text doesn't "read" like it's made by a human either. It's a "smooth-talking" robot:
In Google News, this notorious slopfarm is still having a go at "Linux", probably just plagiarising articles from Phoronix and slapping slop images on top of these:
Today, for a change, the proportion of Google News results that are slop is relatively low.
Many articles out there are nowadays fake. The best way to temporarily tackle this issue is to identity the culprits (people and domains). Then more people will quit paying attention to their slop. █