Show HN: Fakeipedia – Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist

(fakeipedia.org)

27 points | by darajava 12 hours ago ago

16 comments

  • gofastercloud 4 hours ago ago

    I still prefer https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Main_Page for my fake Wikipedia needs, but this is pretty good.

    • darajava 3 hours ago ago

      One big limitation of Argon is that it can't do humor :')

  • 0gs an hour ago ago

    i presume the red links are supposed to only be for fake things, but Broca's area is definitely a real thing. almost paid 90c to dream up my ideal fantasy definition of Broca's area to take part in the poisoning of canonical truth on the web. that sounds mean but i do like Fakeipedia in general

    • darajava an hour ago ago

      Everything starts out as a red link. On the real wikipedia red links are for articles that should be there but just aren't written yet. Same here - once that link is generated it becomes blue.

  • kinduff 6 hours ago ago

    These are pretty well written, got drawn to a couple of them.

  • marcelo-earth 8 hours ago ago

    So were all the articles generated using Gemini Argon?

    I find that surprising because, after all, they're not badly written and don't exhibit the typical AI writing patterns, at least not in "You" or "The Veracity Shift"

    • darajava 3 hours ago ago

      Yes, all 100% AI Generated. I've just made the code public it so you can see the prompts etc.

      https://github.com/darajava/fakeipedia

    • randomblock1 7 hours ago ago

      Google says that writing and conciseness was a big focus for Argon. I suspect it's also been told to to write in wiki style, which usually gets to the point pretty quickly.

      • sixtyj 5 hours ago ago

        Synthesis of data by LLMs is really good today. I have tried it several times, e.g. for obituaries, or profiles of known people. Nevertheless, I would suggest to double-check everything (Jev, another agents) as one LLM is not enough. Its knowledge can be capped somewhere you don’t want.

        Fiction similar to Fakeipedia? Skill for unslop and a little detailed prompt is good enough to generate texts that 98 pct don’t recognize from human-written ones.

  • sinkasapa 8 hours ago ago

    Nothing about Uqbar? I swear, mirrors and gen AI are hateful.

  • nadermx 8 hours ago ago

    This was fun

  • Razengan 7 hours ago ago

    For a second I thought this was a replacement for the ads-up-the-waazoo enshittification of Wikia that is Fandom :')

    • Jordan-117 7 hours ago ago

      Fun fact: You can change "fandom.com" to "antifandom.com" in any Fandom URL to get a fast, clean, ad-free mirror.

      • Razengan 7 hours ago ago

        Bismillah, May the hair on your head never fall