Congratulations to the Future 2 sport group, which after a number of days of onerous 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 purported to. You see, Glorbo is not actual. But it surely’s rapidly turning into an actual pattern 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 wash 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 concept to trick AI web sites into writing a few faux subject by making a Reddit put up 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 sport function, a few of which had been finally aggregated into a very ridiculous, fully severe, and now fully eliminated put up on Zleague.gg in regards to the faux pattern.
![Glorbo rises again.](https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2023/07/26/glorbo-rises-again-1690414917160.png)
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 at the moment, they too managed to trick an AI into writing a honest article in regards to the pattern.
The article itself makes nearly no sense in any respect, together with a bit asking, “The right way to discover the Future 2 secret boss Glorbo?” that fails to reply this query completely, and repeatedly seeming to confuse whether or not Glorbo is a boss, a bug, or a secret strat all through the article.
Glorbo mania is spreading
To the delight (or possibly horror) of the group, it truly looks like a number of AI-written web sites have picked up Glorbo. So whereas this can be a fairly humorous prank, it does put a highlight on each the quantity 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. Received a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.