Probably a Lot Worse Than LLM Slop: GNOME Tying Itself to Divisive Politics, Even Where It's Clearly Not Relevant
This morning I saw the slopfarm-headed or LLM-bound* UbuntuPIT having a go at slop again:
I'm quite certain it is just LLM slop based on that original post, which was mentioned in Phoronix and elsewhere. This is what goes on in the original post:
It is not a bot, it's a real person. Something has gone terribly wrong in GNOME.
You just want technical news about Flatpak and GNOME 49 and they push political messages in gnome.org (not in the comments, in the body of posts, i.e. inside those very same technical posts).
Imagine kde.org publishing blog posts about Plasma and putting in them "Support Trump".
Or "Vote Harris" in the official perl.org/com blog.
What if Rust called a release "Bomb Iran"?
Or if LKML said "Bomb Israel" at the top of each archived message?
There are many reasons why GNOME's antics are going to be off-putting to many people. █
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* It has gotten so bad that some original authors contacted us about it before and after we had published:
- Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT and Google News
- Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT Joins the Slopfarms Club
- UbuntuPIT Became a Slopfarm and Gnoppix Tarnishes Its Own Brand With Slop
- Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, UbuntuPIT, and Google News
- Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT Churning Out Plagiarism and the Slopfarm LinuxSecurity Turns to Pseudonyms