Show HN: Fakeipedia – Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist
2 days ago (fakeipedia.org)
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.
If it didn't have Wikipedia's layout and structure, I'd say all the articles were from something adjacent to the SCP Foundation. The narrative style is much more SCP-ish than Wikipedia-like, because Wikipedia's main strength is its interconnected network of articles, which eliminates the need to tell the whole story on a single page. Only SCP Foundation articles try to capture the idea of an entire world on a single page.
UPD: And, well, sadistic and otherworldly descriptions of the unenviable existence of all humanity after something terrible happens are the SCP Foundation's bread and butter.
I still prefer https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Main_Page for my fake Wikipedia needs, but this is pretty good.
One big limitation of Argon is that it can't do humor :')
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"
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
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.
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.
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These are pretty well written, got drawn to a couple of them.
Nothing about Uqbar? I swear, mirrors and gen AI are hateful.
I've added this now: https://fakeipedia.org/tlon/tlon
Awesome. How did you prompt it? In my experience generated long texts quickly turn sloppy.
Also would be great to get an article from other side of the eternal broadcast.
basically, I sent the seed article, the homepage article and the, referring article and I think the whole graph into the prompt, as well as the idea of Fakeipedia and writing guidelines etc. The prompt is in the repo but I’m on my phone so can’t link atm!
https://github.com/darajava/fakeipedia/blob/master/src/lib/a...
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
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.
I found the ASI page a compelling read. The amount of horrific details it came up with relative to the prompt is a little unnerving. I do find in my own experiments that they are really good with dystopian AI takeover "fiction".
https://fakeipedia.org/asi/asi
I put a lot of human work into making the seed article for ASI more so than any other wiki. That’s why it’s getting all these weird details. I am on my phone at the moment so I can’t link, but the seed articles should be in the repo.
This was fun
For a second I thought this was a replacement for the ads-up-the-waazoo enshittification of Wikia that is Fandom :')
Fun fact: You can change "fandom.com" to "antifandom.com" in any Fandom URL to get a fast, clean, ad-free mirror.
Bismillah, May the hair on your head never fall
these made-up worlds are way more detailed than i expected lol
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