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‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In a perfect world maybe it would work that way, but I’ve seen too much enshittifaction via vertical integration or ego driven CEObros to have anything but skepticism for industry regulation, self-regulation in particular.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And we've seen too much industry manipulation in government too.

But the big companies turning their platforms into absolute crap isn't actually a problem for the industry. Other players will rise up (such as lemmy, kbin, mastodon, and other non activity pub sites) and make good platforms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, any capitalist system that relies on "self regulation", basically the honour system, is a fantasy at this point.