Congratulations to the Future 2 recreation group, which after a number of days of exhausting work and enthusiasm has managed to make Glorbo occur.
If that above sentence made completely no sense to you, don’t be concerned: it is (principally) not speculated to. You see, Glorbo is not actual. Nevertheless it’s rapidly turning into an actual development that MMO group members are utilizing to trick AI web sites into writing about faux traits of their beloved video games, successfully exposing web sites which might be utilizing AI to clean communities and generate nonsensical headlines.
The return of Glorbo
The entire thing began final week with World of Warcraft, when a group member got here up with the genius thought to trick AI web sites into writing a couple of faux matter by making a Reddit submit expressing enthusiasm for “glorbo” being added to the sport. The group all obtained in on the joke, posting reply after reply expressing numerous emotions in regards to the non-existent recreation function, a few of which had been finally aggregated into a totally ridiculous, fully critical, and now fully eliminated submit on Zleague.gg in regards to the faux development.
Since then, the Future 2 group has gotten in on the joke, and within the final a number of days the Future 2 subreddit has been completely filled with Glorboposting. And right now, they too managed to trick an AI into writing a honest article in regards to the development.
The article itself makes nearly no sense in any respect, together with a bit asking, “Tips on how to discover the Future 2 secret boss Glorbo?” that fails to reply this query totally, and repeatedly seeming to confuse whether or not Glorbo is a boss, a bug, or a secret strat all through the article. It does seem like drawing on precise boss methods, together with a point out of Simmumah Ur-Noku from the current Ghosts of the Deep Dungeon, however all the things Glorbo-related is absolute silliness.
Glorbo mania is spreading
To the delight (or perhaps horror) of the group, it really looks like a number of AI-written web sites have picked up Glorbo. So whereas it is a fairly humorous prank, it does put a highlight on each the amount and lack of scrupulosity on the market from AI-written web sites which might be simply taking any key phrase they scrape sufficient occasions off Reddit and turning them into hodge-podge piles of nonsensical textual content with an air of authority. Watch out what you learn on the market.
And congratulations to the Future 2 group on its newfound Glorbo. Who is aware of what MMO he’ll flip up in subsequent? All hail Glorbo.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Obtained a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.
