"These tools have made it very easy for bad actors to flood things" - AI video game wikis riddled with errors are taking over, and pushing real fans to the side
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LLM-powered wikis, often full of inaccurate or irrelevant information, are starting to take over, leaving fans sidelined and publishers playing whack-a-mole.
  • Obituarykidney@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Recently tried played the valheim 1.0 with my fiance and there was literally no wiki with the information we were looking for about stuff from the new update. Anything that wasn’t ai/SEO slop just had the item descriptions straight from the game with no further information. The ai slop “wikis” were just making shit up and straight up wrong. I’m now finding the same thing with a few other games I’ve been playing.

    If there isn’t an official wiki, or the game isn’t already well established then the info is nowhere to be found, or so buried I’ll never see it. Feels like we almost need to go back to gaming magazines like the early 2000s.

    I’m finding this with every aspect of the internet now too. It’s nearly at the point where if I don’t know someone who knows the answer to my question then I just don’t get to know. Time to invest in one of those encyclopaedia sets every school used to have.

    • Waterpumpee@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      Seems like a dev issue though. They are so used to players figuring out stuff with wikis that they dont bother explaining it.

      • Obituarykidney@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        I agree. I’d rather not need to use the wiki to avoid spoilers, but a lot of games are extremely vague on the details like how am keen works or where to find a specific mob that drops the thing you need etc. Idk if I’ve played one game in the last 5-10 years that didn’t require at least one check of the wiki because the in game descriptions were too vague or non-existent.