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

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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.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    88·
    1 year ago

    I don’t really get the hostility towards AI scraping. Don’t we want to have a healthy shared graph of human knowledge? This data is also used by open source models. It’s poisoning the well for everybody to spite some companies who also have the resources to filter this - so you’re really just hurting the good guys.

    Hate is making people do stupid things. It’s emberassing to call yourself a gamer these days ngl.

    • abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Because regurgitation without understanding leads to demonstrably untrue information being propagated as fact. There have been a number of instances also where AIs have straight up made stuff up as well.