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Slopwatch: A World Wide Web That's Rotting for Companies That Won't Even Exist in a Few Years

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 24, 2025

of wasps and beavers

So the so-called "ChatGPT" (BS generator) is looking for more bailouts, having signed a bogus (impossible to fulfil) deal based on money that does not even exist, i.e. the usual from "open" "hey hi".

In the meantime ChatGPT and other LLM garbage spewers destroy the Web. Any day that they exist and serve requests is a net loss for society. It worsens productivity and increases the amount of plagiarism out there.

Then there are former "Linux" sites that go rogue like this one:

Slop or fake: How to run a repository of casino games in Linux using Wine or Proton

Just the latest of many. Slop? Sure. Spam? Also, for sure.

Of course the Serial Slopper does the same right now, based on other people's work:

elementary OS 8.0.2 arrives with accessibility fixes, music improvements, and Linux 6.14

Another "Linux" site carries on with LLM slop this week:

Slop or fake: Full Disk Encryption: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters for Linux Security in 2025

Slop or fake: Configuring Proxy Servers on Linux for Enhanced Security and Privacy

They just toss in the word "Linux" and the word "Security" for SEO purposes.

Later on Google serves results that are basically slopfarms, optimised to be found when certain words are searched. Google has real problems ahead. Its usefulness is fading away.

Then there's Google News, which was meant to vet sources but does a terrible job at it.

Here's one slopfarm joining the other 2 (sister) slopfarms:

Slop or fake: BlackLock Ransomware Actively Targeting Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi Environments

We already showed two almost identical pieces from the same networks of slopfarms. Google News is helping all of them.

Google News has also just promoted this slopfarm:

Slop or fake: Linux’s Darwinian Evolution: Microkernels for Cyber Resilience

They're just tossing this new article into an LLM, add a fake image on top, then pretend that an actual person wrote it.

That's just some of the junk Google News is promoting.

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