Slopwatch: Linux Journal, Serial Slopper, WebProNews, and More
This is the first Slopwatch in days and it is by no means complete or extensive. We are, nevertheless, getting back into the habit.
Linux Journal, once a great site with high-profile authors, became a slopfarm. This is its latest LLM slop:
Even the structure alone is a giveaway.
The Serial Slopper has already targeted "Linux" using fake articles on an almost daily basis:
As did the slopfarm WebProNews, which Google News makes very prominent.
It's not just the above; "linux" searches in Google News yield many slopfarms disguised as news sources:
And 3 slopfarms run by the same people pushing the same type of slop (all the items below are amplified by Google News):
This is another slopfarm which Google News promotes today:
The text is derived from originals and it contains slop images, as usual.
At the bottom they say: "The editorial team of Red Hot Cyber consists of a group of individuals and anonymous sources who actively collaborate to provide early information and news on cybersecurity and computing in general."
Probably just mildly-edited slop.
It saddens us to see what the Web has become. █