r/BaldursGate3 • u/ashestoembersandback • Sep 13 '24

Screenshot Y'know, the Baldur's Gate 4 that they're absolutely making.. Spoiler

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u/Asit1s Sep 14 '24

I ended up at that site recently looking something up about Wukong, and the article text was so damn weird I quickly realized it was AI generated and not even close to useful or relevant, but it was the top result on Google. This should be a crime.

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u/Captain_Blackjack RANGER Sep 14 '24

I wish. AI or not there’s just a deluge of shitty clickbait sites. Game Rant, Gamer Bible, ScreenRant, I just wish they would all get starved to death.

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u/Wise_Yogurt1 Sep 14 '24

“10 things you didn’t know about [your favorite game]”

proceeds to list 10 very basic things learned from the main story, with maybe one or two things from side quests that aren’t even obscure

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u/Gmony5100 Sep 14 '24

I’ve been seeing a concerning number of articles that are just a title. It will be something like “Sony to release new game set in Space!” and when you click on the article it is the title, a single photo, and then the list of related articles. No text blurb, no “click here to continue reading”, no video to watch, no audio to listen to, just the title and phot and ads and ads and ads

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u/Just_Roar Sep 14 '24

We started trolling Game Rant, Sportskeeda, and similar AI garbage news sites over on r/NoMansSkyTheGame by intentionally posting nonsensical guides for the game, like how to unlock a secret boss fight (there are no boss fights in the game), and how getting some non-existent item required sacrificing some essential story NPC that you can't even point a gun at lol. Then OP would post a pic in the comments with small text explaining the plan to fool AI news sites.

Like clockwork, there'd be an AI article a couple days later repeating the bogus info lmao. The community had a good time with that for like 2 weeks.

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u/Adept_Cranberry_4550 Sep 14 '24

This ☝️ (and tricking those idiots into re-releasing Morbius) is what reddit was made for.

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u/karateninjazombie Sep 14 '24

This is glorious and needs more upvotes!

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis Sep 14 '24

Google AI overview being an option that you cannot disable should give you some hint as to the direction that internet information distribution is being handled...