World Of Warcraft fans trick the AI, hilarity ensues

The AI’s ability to (usually) create grammatically correct syntax is certainly impressive, but there’s no real intelligence behind the text, meaning the way you and I would figure out the validity of some statements or come up with original thoughts in response to a detail or an event isn’t present in AI-generated works. At the moment, this is being consciously proven World of Warcraft Community that managed to create fake advertisements to trick AI bots on certain websites into posting fake information as news.

“I’m so excited they finally introduced Glorbo!!!” reads a Reddit thread

with 2,000 upvotes. The post further tells a fake story about the fake Glorbo. (Sorry if you got upset there, Glorbo isn’t a real thing. I checked it out. I have this feature in my brain.) It was all part of a deliberate ploy to trick the AI, as the post’s opening salvo makes clear: “Honestly, this new feature makes me so happy!” I just want some big bot-powered news sites to do an article about it.” , attached to more obvious fakes Wow Facts: “This is by far the best change since they made Klaxxi a neutral playable race as part of the epic quest to destroy Quackion, the Aspect of Ducks,” reads one such comment.

Well it worked. This incorrect information led to this an article generated by the AI ​​that ends up on a website by the name The portal

. The article was credited to “Lucy Reed,” a byline who accordingly wow head, up to 83 articles are assigned daily. It seems quite unlikely that she is a real person.

The AI ​​text documents the excitement surrounding Glorbo as if it were a real thing, with a caption that reads, “World of Warcraft (WoW) Players are delighted with Glorbo’s introduction.” The text liberally quotes from the Reddit thread, which is filled with misinformation about the game, even resorting to absurd terms like “the aspect of the ducks”.

Although there are no live links documenting this and the article in question has since been deleted, The portal appears to have responded to its own coverage of Glorbo by publishing another article documenting how gamers are “reacting to the use of AI to extract content from their subreddit for popular gaming sites,” giving the game away, so to speak The portal is really powered by AI doing just that.

The article “Players react to AI-generated content” is no longer available. Moreover, it seems so The portal changed the title of the original Glorbo article to declare it “satire” before removing it altogether.

Even though the article was removed, I can only imagine what can happen (and probably will) if 2,000 upvotes are enough to publish an AI article about fake information when people out there are eager to cause a stir about other fake news. For now, Glorbo is a silly example, but demonstrably more insidious, intentional outcomes are possible here.