Slopwatch: Datamation, LinuxSecurity, and BetaNews
Last month we reached the conclusion that Datamation had basically resorted to LLM slop and faked an increase in output levels by becoming a sort of slopfarm. Now we see "Datamation Staff" mentioned alongside a real name:
But it seems to be fake.
Maybe the real name is the person who prompts some LLM and then pretends to check the output for accuracy.
Over at another slopfarm, LinuxSecurity, "MaK Ulac" (fake name) has a string of fake articles:
In BetaNews, which seems to be slapping names of real people on slop [1, 2], there's this piece about Collabora Office news:
Some portions of it do seem like slop and get detected as such:
We don't expect to see much slop in the coming days because of the weekend and the holiday. █