Gaming

When is it a bad thing to encourage best practices on the Internet to verify sources and recognize signs of LLM slop? They took the time to explain why it's better to get a direct source and avoid middlemen. That's not "defensive".

Your argument is that they simply could have searched for additional sources, but I think you've proven the point that simply searching without verifying is likely to yield garbage.

There's no disparaging OP here unless they are the author of the article. But I believe that the article is being properly criticized for the things it does wrong.

Less time than you take to discredit this can copy/paste the search terms yourself and choose

What the fuck are you even talking about? I provided the PC Gamer source because I personally have no trouble finding good sources but know some people do (nor should people have to go look for them in lieu of a content farm anyway), and the GameRant article linked in the OP credits PC Gamer as its singular source. I broke down why it's preferable after reading both sources.

I don't feel like being lectured on going out and finding better sources when 1) I did and 2) the lobotomist would've had to accidentally leave the ice pick in your head for you to be fucking stupid enough to find and present the LLM slop that you did. It's pathetically clear you have no idea how to find good sources of information, and you should work on basic media literacy skills. (That's a rude but real suggestion. If you want polite, you can start next time by not suggesting I have sinister ulterior motives for trying to help.)

For context, I usually come across accounts posting something on social media without a source. Then I use a search engine to search some keywords from that claim (in this case Valve Rotschild lawsuit) and if multiple sources report on it then I select whatever headline looks appealing and contains decent looking information. I barely do any background checking on the websites so it's possible I receive LLM websites. If the other user just told me "this LLM website is bad" I wouldn't change anything but they also provided a good alternative to easily change the post to another article so I don't mind.