Yes, you read that right.

I’m a prolific open-source influencer now.

Some years ago I set up a Google Alert with my name, for fun. Who knows what it might show one day? On 7th of February, it fired an alert.

Ooh!
Ooh!

Turns out that my thoughts on Ubuntu were somewhat popular, and it ended up being ingested by an AI slop generator over at Fudzilla, with no links back to the source or anything.1

Not only that, but their choice of spicy autocomplete confabulation bot a large language model completely butchered the article, leaving out critical information, which lead to one reader gloating about Windows.

The result of an AI slop generator butchering an article.
The result of an AI slop generator butchering an article.

Not linking back to the original source? Not a good start.

Misrepresenting my work? Insulting.

Giving a Windows user the opportunity to boast about how happy they are with using it? Absolutely unacceptable.

Here’s the full article in case they ever delete their poor excuse of a “news” “article”.

  1. two can play at that game. ↩︎