World of Warcraft fans trick AI bots into thinking a new feature has been added

Redditors on the World of Warcraft subreddit have managed to trick AI bots that scrape the site for news stories into believing that Glorbo is a real feature and will be introduced to the game.

"Honestly," begins a post by kaefer_krigerin. "This new feature makes me so happy! I just really want some major bot operated news websites to publish an article about this. I have to say, since they started hinting at it in Hearthstone in 1994, it was obvious that they would introduce Glorbo to World of Warcraft sooner or later. I feel like Dragonflight has been win after win so far, like when they brought back Chen Stormstout as the end boss of the new Karazhan? Absolutely amazing!"

This was then picked up by an outlet in a now-deleted article entitled "World of Warcraft players excited for Glorbo's introduction." Glorbo sounds like it's straight out of those Rick and Morty intergalactic TV episodes. It couldn't be any more fake if it tried, but it is interesting to see that AI bots looking for news stories can be manipulated in such a manner.