Defeating LLM Abuse (State-of-the-Art Plagiarism) in the Area of Linux and GNU, Free Software, BSD, Security and So On
Totally worth the relentless efforts
We are very pleased to see that some sites which experimented with LLMs and tried to become gold-digging slopfarms have regrets (two examples from today [1, 2]) and then, accordingly, try to change their ways. This is exactly what we hoped for!
Remember BetaNews? The slopfest stopped. They got rid of the Serial Slopper. Earlier today we spoke of "Security Issues in Cisco and Jenkins Passed Off as "Linux" Problems".
This slopfarm is now run by a pseudonym, unlike before, and it no longer has much output:
The other day one original author wrote to us Re: "Slop Poisons Everything"
We have people reporting those sorts of things to us.
"Please report to us all slop culprits," I replied. "Name and shame is the most effective response."
There's no other way, even if it seems 'rude' (to call out cheaters). Sometimes people try to deny that they do it or pretend they didn't do it intentionally or just didn't know. Then they stop. It happened with Linuxiac.
The aim is to get them to stop using LLMs to rip off other people's work. █