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

28 points darajava 12 hours ago 17 comments

Hi HN!

Fakeipedia is an automatic world-building platform which takes an imagined world and makes a whole wiki that you can endlessly explore by clicking red links.

I came up with this idea a few months ago after playing around with worldbuilding in Gemini, but I didn't want to release it until a powerful enough model could do it justice, and I decided that Argon is creative enough to write articles that are worth reading. I was surprised how well it turned out and how engaging some of the writing actually is.

If you want to generate an article there is a nominal charge attached ($0.90), which helps cover AI/Stripe costs, and I think I just about break even. You can also steer the generation ala choose-your-own-adventure books when generating a new article. Everything generated is free and public for everyone to see.

I hope you like it and I'm very much open to hearing about new world ideas/features that would make this project better.

marcelo-earth 8 hours ago | parent

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"

randomblock1 7 hours ago | parent

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 | parent

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.

darajava 2 hours ago | parent

I've just made the code public: https://github.com/darajava/fakeipedia

darajava 2 hours ago | parent

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

nadermx 8 hours ago | parent

This was fun

sinkasapa 7 hours ago | parent

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

darajava 2 hours ago | parent

I've added this now: https://fakeipedia.org/tlon/tlon

Razengan 7 hours ago | parent

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 | parent

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

Razengan 6 hours ago | parent

Bismillah, May the hair on your head never fall

kinduff 6 hours ago | parent

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

gofastercloud 3 hours ago | parent

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

darajava 2 hours ago | parent

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

0gs 1 hour ago | parent

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 1 hour ago | parent

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.

CommanderTvis 2 minutes ago | parent

If it did not have Wikipedia layout and structure, I'd say that all articles are from something adjacent to SCP foundation. The narration style is much more SCPish than Wikipedish, because Wikipedia's main thing is an actual graph of articles that does not need to tell the whole lore in one page. Only SCP Foundation articles try to capture a whole world idea into one page.