World of Warcraft Players Trick AI Website Into Covering Fictional Update Known Only as 'Glorbo'
The World of Warcraft community is jubilant after brazenly tricking an AI-generated games news website into publishing an article covering a fictitious upcoming feature, known simply as ‘Glorbo’.
The spread of AI-generated news has been a subject of controversy and debate in recent years, and has seen certain websites dispatch bots to scrape information from the underbelly of the internet and use it to mould simplistic articles.
Having seen similar tactics used to extract info from the World of Warcraft community, Reddit user kaefer_kriegerin created a post entitled ‘I’m so excited they finally introduced Glorbo!!!’ in which they gave an impassioned account of a fictitious feature coming to the game.
The vigilante’s goal was to entice bots into taking notice of the post, and to subsequently trigger the creation of an article detailing the nonsense therein. To put it another way, kaefer_kriegerin’s post was something of a Trojan horse, but in lieu of Greek soldiers, the digital construct was filled with malicious tomfoolery.
Feels soooooo good to be able to talk about Glorbo finally, I remember my first day at Blizzard we were just starting to work on implementation, and that was almost 15 years ago!Excellent reporting to track this down
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