A website called zleague.gg has been scraping Reddit threads, feeding them into an AI and publishing auto-generated summaries without proper oversight. World of Warcraft players on Reddit noticed this and created a fake thread about a made-up feature called Glorbo to trick the AI. The AI then published an article summarizing the fake Glorbo thread, showing that it was easily fooled. This highlights issues with AI-generated content crowding out human writers and the need for Google to better regulate such sites to ensure quality. The Glorbo prank provides an amusing example of how gaming communities can push back against AI overreach.
This feels like the early days of Google, when it was basically a cat and mouse game of their page ranking algorithm vs website creators trying to game their page rank. Still happens, but it’s less obvious and easy.
Yeah, now they just buy the top spot on your search results.
@trashhalo Soon an AI program will be generated to oversight AI generated articles from Reddit. omg…what a future.
Looks like another discussion about the same topic happened here. https://beehaw.org/post/6743963
The best part of this is that the AI could not come up with original content. All it can do is repeat what humans already output. I would say games journalism is safe from an AI takeover. Now we just need to get rid of the bot spam.
That shit needs to just be shut down and forgotten about. Nothing good will come from it.
Zleague also does like tournament betting for gaming.
I thought it sounded familiar.
Non paywall version?
Even better, the original article.