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Slopwatch May be Doomed

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 09, 2025

Our year-long series, Slopwatch, may be coming to an end because articles that use LLM slop and slop images to cover "Linux" are fast becoming a dying breed, and may be near-extinct some time soon. Any remnants would be a "blast from the past".

When Slopwatch started we were alarmed to see several (formerly) legitimate sites about Linux 'experimenting' with slop. Almost all of them have since then stopped. Maybe they came to an important but belated realisation: Slop isn't changing the world, certainly not in a good way anyway. It's a passing fad and a toy that companies are willing to lose billions of dollars per year to make available. But how long for? How many never-ending losses and how much debt can they tolerate?

Today when I checked or search for "linux" in Google News the only slop examples I found were from WebProNews:

Notice how the images have nothing to do with the topic:

It looks like they recently lost their slop image provider (we assume it went offline or started charging fees that the slopfarm, WebProNews, was unwilling/unable to shell out).

Maybe by next December, i.e. around the time Slopwatch can turn two (we'll likely stop Slopwatch before that), slop about "linux" will already be very rare. █