WoW players spring trap on hapless AI article generators, tricking a site into writing about a hotly anticipated (and totally fake) 'Glorbo' feature
Good news for anyone reading this who happens to be me: My job is safe, at least for a while. How do I know? Because at least I—unlike the AI article generators scraping the World of Warcraft subreddit for stories—know that Glorbo isn't coming.
«Glorbo» is a made-up new WoW feature created by a Reddit user named kaefer_kriegerin. Having noticed that bots were plumbing the WoW subreddit for threads to turn into stories without any regard for verification, kaefer took it upon themself to teach them a lesson.
They wrote a breathless hype thread about an upcoming new WoW feature called Glorbo in the hopes of baiting a bot into turning it into a post, even going so far as to say they «just really want some major bot operated news websites to publish an article about this». They got their wish. It wasn't long before a site called Zleague.gg had produced an article about the unbridled enthusiasm of WoW fans for the introduction of Glorbo.
«Players express excitement for Glorbo's arrival and its potential impact on the game,» read the first of four «Key Takeaways» on Zleague's article, purportedly written by an author who is really putting me to shame, having written over 50 articles in the last day alone. What potential impacts might Glorbo have, you ask aloud to your screen? Excellent question, and one that the robots unfortunately can't really answer, given that pretty much no one in on the joke in the Reddit thread ever wrote about what Glorbo was actually going to do.
Players «eagerly anticipate the changes Glorbo will bring to the game,» reads the piece, but warns that some users have concerns about «Glorbo being overpowered». Heck, some players are even accusing Blizzard «of being inconsiderate towards non-Glorbo
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