Congratulations to the Future 2 recreation neighborhood, 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 (largely) not purported to. You see, Glorbo is not actual. But it surely’s shortly turning into an actual pattern that MMO neighborhood members are utilizing to trick AI web sites into writing about pretend traits of their beloved video games, successfully exposing web sites which can be utilizing AI to wash communities and generate nonsensical headlines.
The return of Glorbo
The entire thing began final week with World of Warcraft, when a neighborhood member got here up with the genius thought to trick AI web sites into writing a couple of pretend matter by making a Reddit publish expressing enthusiasm for “glorbo” being added to the sport. The neighborhood 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 very ridiculous, fully severe, and now fully eliminated publish on Zleague.gg in regards to the pretend pattern.
Since then, the Future 2 neighborhood 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 as we speak, they too managed to trick an AI into writing a honest article in regards to the pattern.
The article itself makes virtually no sense in any respect, together with a bit asking, “Easy methods 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 latest Ghosts of the Deep Dungeon, however all the things Glorbo-related is absolute silliness.
Glorbo mania is spreading
To the delight (or possibly horror) of the neighborhood, 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 can be simply taking any key phrase they scrape sufficient instances 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 neighborhood 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. Received a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.
