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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?

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!

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.

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.