Slopwatch: Linux Journal and Other Slopfarms
Today's Slopwatch is short and deals with two slopfarms, two of which (i.e. all of which!) are promoted by Google News when one looks for "linux" news. Search for "linux" and this is the top result:
It is basically a fake article.
So is the following, further down in the same list of results:
How can Google News not figure out this is a fake site that uses slop for everything?
Well, remember the key point: Google itself is a slop pusher with its own LLMs.
Put another way, Google tries to advance the idea that slop is OK; it also serves people its own slop instead of actual search results.
GAFAM needs to go the way of the dodo. █