Slopwatch: Fake Articles, SPAM With Slop, and Google News Directs People to Read Slopfarms
Today's Slopwatch starts with a fake "Linux" site - a site that for two days in a row spewed out LLM slop about "Disk Encryption"; this is fake:
And this is fake as well:
Negative slant, as usual. They try to sell something.
This past summer we said that IDG had resorted to LLM slop. The following new one by Sean Michael Kerner is spam with slop:
The whole 'article' isn't authentic; it's marketing spam and parts of it are pure slop.
What is the purpose of such a page anyway? Finally, taking real articles and turning them into LLM slop with slop images, the following 3 slopfarms (operated by the same people) show up when you look for "linux" in Google News:
Can Google not realise what's happening here? It sends traffic to fake articles, even in Google News.
And speaking of Google News, watch how problems in proprietary software are spun in a slopfarm. It's FUD blaming "Linux" (or shifting culpability to it) using LLM slop with slop imagery:
That's the kind of trash one can expect from Fagioli; why does Google News insist on still linking to prolific slopfarms? █