‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense

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‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/07/21/world-of-warcraft-players-trick-ai-scraping-games-website-into-publishing-nonsense/

The World of Warcraft subreddit recently realized that a website, zleague.gg (I am not linking to it), which runs a blog attached to some of sort of gaming app which is its main business, has been scraping reddit threads, feeding them through an AI and summarizing them

‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense

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...with “key takeaways” and regurgitated paragraphs that all follow the same format. It’s gross, and yet it generates an article long enough with enough keywords to show up on Google.