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Is this Article AI generated? Is there a DNS blocklist for websites who clearly abuse AI to generate Articles?

I was searching if it's possible to play Valorant on Linux. This was one of the first Articles Qwant recommended me: www.gameslearningsociety.org

The style, the writing and the fact that Valorant cant be downloaded via Steam screams AI to me. I've noticed more and more often lately that some Articles(example) about specific topics don't go much in depth and seem very generic. Additional decorated with bad AI generated images.

This development really worries me, because you have to be constantly on your guard as to whether an article is really trustworthy. Cause obviously: LLM is not. Can you recommend a DNS Blocklist which includes those Websites who clearly abuse AI to generate trucks full of AI shit? Thank you!

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You can't play Valorant on Linux and you shouldn't play it on Windows either. The anticheat is a root level access program that could take full control over your computer, shovel data to hackers, etc.

There are many strange claims in that article. It has that generic kind of writing that makes me think it could be fully or partially written by AI. No author attribution, right?
- Nope. No author attribution for this article. But you can find some Names and email addresses who seems to be in charge for this website. Just out of curiosity, I wrote an email to them and asked if their articles are generated with AI :D

Yeah, that's definitely a hallucinated article.

We get a lot of articles like that, lately. I'm not aware of any solution, except OpenAI etc were to implement watermarking for generated texts. But they won't do that unless forced to do so. You'll find a lot of AI slop copy-pasting some project descriptions and making up facts, generating installation instructions or comparing software. I would stop reading those entirely. Make sure the website you're on is a trusted and well-known source. Maybe explicitly go to some Linux gaming Wiki and search there, don't use Google or any assistant. Sad thing is: It's pretty certain that it will only get worse in the future.