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Nathan Adams
@dinnerbone.com

I almost fell for a scam site today, pretending to be the homepage of an OSS project that I was looking for. It looked convincing until I scrolled to read more text. LLM slop is getting scary good at "looks good at a glance". I don't even know _how_ they managed this. Feeding LLM into LLM somehow?

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LambdAurora
@lambdaurora.dev

A few days ago I stumbled upon a similar website that is pretending to be the homepage of one of my mods. Luckily in this case there isn't malware (the JAR match one of my official JARs). But same LLM slop and all, and also lots of AI-generated pictures... Bit worrying about the future.

Ja4647
@abliz435.bsky.social

It’s a sad world we are living, and it’s sad to see Google, Meta, and even Microsoft support LLMs as they are now even when warned about the dangers that they could pose

Nathan Adams
@dinnerbone.com

This was the first hit for me when I googled DxWnd, a tool I heard about to help me play an old game on a modern computer. The other hit I found was a _different_ LLM generated website for this tool. The commonality? They both list the same email address. Googling that email and... holy crap!

Nathan Adams
@dinnerbone.com

There's hundreds, maybe thousands of these. I know many of these projects and even I'd be fooled by some of these sites at a glance. OSS projects are under attack in mass, and I can only assume it's for malware reasons. I've not heard about this on such a big scale before. I'm in absolute shock.

Pavel Djundik
@xpaw.me

Went to a few of these, they're copying actual project sites and adding generated text to the page. And google being google, that somehow ranks higher.