Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT Churning Out Plagiarism and the Slopfarm LinuxSecurity Turns to Pseudonyms
Today is Saturday, so Slopwatch will be light. We've seen a number of sites that turned to LLM slop relenting, as some cease to embrace the fantasy of LLM slop as a godsend. They realise it's the road to nowhere.
UbuntuPIT went almost full slop about a week ago. We've since then heard from authors who complain about it. We aren't showing all the examples of slop from there, just a subsample, such as this OpenSSH slop:
And Proton slop:
The 'branding' on the slop images ought not deceive everyone, nor should the LLM slop beneath those images.
Our hunch is, UbuntuPIT will sooner or later realise that this toxic approach is just harming UbuntuPIT and tainting the reputation of past articles, which were real and very detailed.
Here's the slopfarm LinuxSecurity having a go at eBPF:
Notice how they stopped using real names of authors; maybe they're too embarrassed to put their names on slop. Or maybe Makenna Hensley became "MaK Ulac" instead.
Compare to this:
Same title, different page.
Name changes:
Very bizarre. When it comes to slop, trying to make sense of it is an exercise not worth having. █