Slopwatch: Brian Fagioli and LinuxSecurity
This week's first Slopwatch won't deal with "linux" results in Google News. Instead we'll devote all our attention to notorious slopfarms that constantly target "linux"-related topics.
We start with Brian Fagioli, who published a bunch of LLM slop that said "linux":
So did the slopfarm LinuxSecurity. Notice they no longer use real names for author names. It's like nobody wants to put his or her name on the slop:
They just toss words like "Ubuntu" or "Linux" and "Security" into titles to latch onto search results (SEO spam), then fill the pages with slop images and fake text.
This is a real problem and most certainly a big problem because when people try to find real information about security and GNU/Linux they instead read "word salads" made by bots. Even the LLMs start chewing up these "word salads", i.e. they reinforce their own nonsense in the language models, then pollute the Web some more. █