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CommanderTvis 3d ago

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.

gofastercloud 4d ago

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

darajava 4d ago

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

marcelo-earth 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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.

darajava 4d ago

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

sixtyj 3d ago

Awesome. Thanks. Let’s add some events from Ted Chiang and Jorge Luis Borges books.

kinduff 4d ago

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

sinkasapa 4d ago

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

darajava 4d ago

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

jerjerjer 3d ago

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.

darajava 3d ago

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!

jerjerjer 3d ago

https://github.com/darajava/fakeipedia/blob/master/src/lib/a...

0gs 4d 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 3d 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.

jostylr 3d ago

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

darajava 3d ago

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.

nadermx 4d ago

This was fun

Razengan 4d ago

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

Jordan-117 4d ago

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

Razengan 4d ago

Bismillah, May the hair on your head never fall

garah 2d ago

these made-up worlds are way more detailed than i expected lol

Show HN: Fakeipedia – Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist (fakeipedia.org)