The World of Warcraft area took care of to fool an AI-powered robot right into releasing a write-up regarding an character that was entirely made up.
Earlier this week, the WoW community was all a rumble about Glorbo, a personality that was right around the corner for Blizzard’s long-running MMO. The trouble was, Glorbo was totally fictitious, a fake feature deliberately hyped up by the WoW area in the hopes of tricking an AI bot to write around it on a website employing AI writers.
It didn’t take long for the ruse to work. A website called ZLeague unfortunately took the bait hook, line, and sinker, and reported on the fascinating new Glorbo having World of Warcraft players beside themselves. Unfortunately, the AI-written article has been taken offline, which comes as no surprise whatsoever.
It’s sort of like the Krusty Gets Cancelled episode of The Simpsons, where everyone’s very excited over this hot new thing called “Gabbo” coming to town, but no one really knows who or what Gabbo is. The AI writing the article about Glorbo wasn’t any closer to deciphering what Glorbo was than The Simpsons were about Gabbo at first.
It’s this exact sort of scenario that journalist unions have been warning would happen. GMG Union, for example, published a letter to G/O Media warning of the perils of using AI writers instead of humans to publish new articles. Management ignored the concerns, and published an article of Star Wars rankings written by an bot, which was unsurprisingly filled with errors.
That the WoW area would go to such lengths to prove how inaccurate AI writing can be is truly admirable. Perhaps ZLeague’s management, and also other management around media industries, will think twice regarding making use of AI bots to write short articles in the future.
In World of Warcraft information that is in fact accurate, WoW Dragon’s dragon riding is here to stay for future expansions.
Source: gamesradar.com
