An AI publishes fake news on World of Warcraft after being trolled by Internet users
Spurred on by members of the community site Reddit, an AI-powered news site published an article about World of Warcraft. Except that the information reported was totally made up.
It all starts on the Reddit community site. User u/kaefer_kriegerin notices that The Portal website grabs conversations from Reddit and turns them into articles before publishing them. The conclusion is simple: it is not a human who writes, but an artificial intelligence. The Internet user then decides to take the AI to his own game. He creates a discussion in which he expresses his enthusiasm for Glorbo, a highly anticipated character who will soon appear in World of Warcraftthe online role-playing game.
Obviously, nothing is true, but the community plays the game and comments en masse to feed the machine. Even a Blizzard developer participates in the deception. The ruse pays off and soon The Portal publishes an article titled “World of Warcraft (WoW) Players Excited About Introducing Glorbo”. Since deleted, it even included the sentence of kaefer_kriegerin saying “I really want news sites operated by bots to publish an article [à propos de Glorbo]”.
Feels soooooo good to be able to talk about Glorbo finally, I remember my first day at Blizzard we were just starting to work on implementation, and that was almost 15 years ago!
Great reporting to track this down👍 pic.twitter.com/Wh1hm0gikM
—Zorbrix 💙 (@Zorbrix) July 20, 2023
An AI fooled by Internet users publishes a fake article on World of Warcraft
Beyond the joke, this event raises a real question about the place of AI in writing news on the Internet. Earlier this year, ChatGPT published a list of 34 professions that will never be replaced by artificial intelligence. Journalists, and even more generally writing-related professions, are not included. We console ourselves all the same by noting that visibly, AI is not yet ready for information processing.
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It remains to be seen whether the desired regulations for the use of AI will take this kind of drift into account, and in what forms. In the meantime, don’t worry, we are humans here. Swore on our metal head.
Source : Engadget
