Half a Year Since Slopwatch Died
The series called "Slopwatch" died half a year ago because we no longer saw many examples of LLM slop about "linux" (as in, Linux and other related search terms) online. It's not that they were better veiled; it's just that sites that resorted to being full-time sloppers (i.e. slopfarms) either gave up or got delisted.
To Google's credit, it did manage to delist a lot of slopfarms in recent months. One glaring exception is the following network of slopfarms having a go at it, only to be boosted by Google News (these slopfarms openly boast about this inclusion and try to leverage that as a badge of legitimacy):
Those are fake 'articles' based on plagiarism.
We are happy to see public sentiment shifting rapidly against slop and people having a different tolerance level for LLMs, either as producers or "consumers" (many of those so-called 'producers' are also mere "consumers").
This is why slop companies "make an exit"; they see no actual growth, except in losses. █