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Multiple PS Store reviews for the PS5 game ‘Wolverine’ were found giving high star ratings while the review text itself literally contained the phrase ‘I am not a robot,’ sparking discussion on 5ch’s hardware/industry (Geha) board. While many commenters speculated it was a leftover template artifact from having AI write first-person reviews, others pointed out that the review count has topped 48,000 and that they’ve barely heard any genuinely good buzz about the game — leaving the thread split over whether this is organized manipulation or just a coincidence.
What people said
If someone posted this on purpose, that's kind of genius
Honestly this might be more entertaining than the game itself
Same shady vibe as 'This is not a suspicious service'
This Wolverine thing is seriously embarrassing
Are they really that desperate to trick people into buying this trash?
Is it even being astroturfed though?
I haven't heard a single good word about it
lololol
This basically admits shills exist lol
Reminds me of people doing AI-assisted job interviews saying 'I'm not AI, I'm speaking for myself' lol
This one seems to be full of one-line reviews or completely blank ones
At this point wouldn't it be better to just let a robot write it?
10/17/2013
Review for: Pokémon X (Video Game)
I'm a 35-year-old man whose relationship with my current wife's son (a 3rd grader) from her previous marriage isn't going well.
Thinking it'd be the perfect chance to smooth things over, I promised a month ago to buy him Pokémon. My son's eyes lit up with excitement waiting for it.
In the end, the game hadn't even arrived days after release, and I ended up waiting a shocking full week past launch day.
Meanwhile all his friends were buzzing about having already cleared the story, and he couldn't keep up with the conversation.
Please write this from the perspective of a father who has completely lost his son's trust.
lolololol
That's rough, man lol
This reminded me of something but my memory was too fuzzy to find it
Thanks, you saved me lol
Looks like someone accidentally copy-pasted the shill order brief~
Oh you silly careless shill! Honestly!
This is totally a robot!! (gasp)
Death Stranding 2 had 53,000
Ah, so that's the trick lol
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
This kind of boilerplate text leaking into reviews can happen when someone instructs an AI to “write a first-person user review,” and the AI mistakenly outputs verification phrases from its original prompt — like “I am not a robot” — verbatim. The example posted in the thread (post #49) looks like a textbook case of one of these “order sheets” being copy-pasted straight in. That said, this isn’t proof that the poster or publisher did it intentionally, and opinions in the thread are split — some pushed back, saying “I don’t think this is astroturfing” (post #63). Whether the PS Store’s review count (over 48,000) is high or low for a major title also became a talking point, but the only comparison offered was Death Stranding 2, with nothing to back it up like an industry average. What readers should be careful not to assume is that this leaked text is automatically proof of “organized rating manipulation” — most of the thread’s comments remain speculation and jokes rather than established fact.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch Hardware/Industry (Geha) board thread “Wolverine’s User Score: ‘I Am Not a Robot’.”
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