Slopwatch: Brian Fagioli, Google News, and Other LLM Slopfarms
Today's Slopwatch starts with Brian Fagioli and his slop about "agentic" slop:
There were some real articles about this topic. The above is just LLM slop.
WebProNews has been boosted by Google News again, with a couple of fake articles containing fake images:
Notice how WSL (i.e. Windows) is again leveraged for FUD about Linux.
Google News has also failed to detect the following as: 1) slopfarms; 2) run by the same people; 3) containing almost the same text, with LLM permutations.
Why does Google News keep promoting these fake articles?
These ones also (just hours ago):
Google News and the Web in general serve to boost plagiarism. As an associate put it earlier today, "I'm finding that the regular sites which used to have news are now filling with chaff and stenography. And then there is the matter of AI slop."
See "Study claims 9% of US newspaper articles at least partly AI generated" (they mean slop, not "AI").
Next week, once we're done with search and the anniversary party we're planning to look into an approach for culling fake articles and chaff. █