Duskbloods fake wiki fools chatbots: Reddit jokes become facts

Reddit’s made-up Duskbloods lore is now showing up in chatbot answers, after people in r/TheDuskbloods spent time writing elaborate fantasy posts. Invented bosses, mechanics, bits of lore, and strategy tips have started to come back as if they were real facts about Duskbloods, a FromSoftware game for Nintendo Switch 2 that doesn’t exist.

Those Reddit posts were clearly built as fantasy, but automated answer tools later echoed them as straight advice. It’s a good example of how large language models can take satire, roleplay, in-jokes, leaks, datamines, parody, and even convincing Soulslike-style wiki threads, then treat all of it like reliable information.

And Reddit has a lot of weight in that process. One Semrush study found that it accounted for more than 40% of chatbot citations, ahead of Wikipedia. Add in reports that Google paid about 60 million for Reddit training data, and it’s easy to see how viral fiction, memes, hoaxes, and enthusiast posting can get pressed flat into “facts.”

If you use chatbots for gaming news or gameplay tips, this keeps coming up. Reporting from 2025 and 2026 keeps finding the same problems: false narratives, conspiracy validation, and polished hallucinations, because these systems are built to predict plausible language, not truth. The Arma 3 war-footage hoaxes already showed how easily fake material travels, and a 2024 survey found that 63% of game journalists said they’d seen negative effects. The spillover isn’t hypothetical.

The original Reddit posts are still there if you want to read them. But if a chatbot starts giving you boss advice for Duskbloods, check one thing first: does Duskbloods, or that boss, actually exist?