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Webspam in BetaNews

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 14, 2025

HAVING just mentioned LLM slop and how GAFAM companies "pretend this is "fair use" rather than "piracy" or copyright infringement", here's a new example of SPAM generated by an LLM's output. It is "Latest Technology News" in the front page of BetaNews right now:

Not only is it marketing SPAM but also this:

If this is how BetaNews is shutting down (experimenting with bots), then we shall be documenting it, at the very least to serve as a cautionary tale to other sites. There's no future to "LLM slop as a news site". Ask BNN Breaking what happened to it. █

Also see: BetaNews Has Become a SPAM/Slop Factory, Brian Fagioli Publishes Fake 'Articles' | It's Morbid to Talk About Living People as If They're Dead | BetaNews, Inc. Became a Spam Operation/Web Site, LLM Spew (Slop) for SEO Disguised as "Articles" | BetaNews is Beta-Testing the Site as LLM Slop With Microsoft Propaganda Thrown In | Even the Managing Editor of BetaNews is Doing Slop and Spam | At BetaNews, "Most Commented Story" Is Not a Story But LLM Slop! (Readers Talking to Bots) | BetaNews is Run and Written by Bots That Make Clickbait | BetaNews, Desperate for Clicks, is Pushing Donald Trump Spam Created by LLMs (Slop) | "Latest Technology News" in BetaNews is Press Release SPAM (or LLM Slop, Marketing, Fake 'Review')