World of Warcraft Subreddit Users Trick Gaming News Site with AI-Written Content

Users of the World of Warcraft subreddit have managed to trick a gaming news site into having at least some of its content written by an AI. The site published a completely made-up story about the introduction of the non-existent WoW character ‘Glorbo’.

It started with one post on the WoW subreddit from a user who was pretty sure that website zleague.gg fabricated its articles this way. He or she was convinced that if a hotshot story was discussed enthusiastically and seriously enough on the subreddit, the site would unironically take over. That would have happened many times before, including quotes from the Reddit users.

That particular topic was not taken over by zlgeaue.gg, but one another post with the same intent well. It jubilantly talks about the introduction of Glorbo, with all kinds of invented details around it.

Many of those details ended up in the article. Zleague says players are ‘enthusiastic’, but ‘the mandatory Klikclac item and its effect on more casual players raise concerns’. The text “Honestly, this makes me so happy! I just really want a major bot-run news website to put an article online about this,” has also been neatly copied. Glorbo is also characterized as ‘the best addition since the quest to Quackion, the aspect of Ducks, to dethrone’.

The ‘author’, Lucy Reed, has today put more than 80 articles online, pointed out Ars Technica. Zleague has taken the article in question offline, but the blunder thankfully archived for everyone’s reading pleasure.

2023-07-21 19:40:35
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