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This is fantastic. I couldn't find any obvious way to search for a new page, but you can simply bang out any arbitrary URL slug and the new article will be hallucinated fresh, eg:
The model seems to have an unhealthy obsession with fungi: https://halupedia.com/alan-turing
Which I guess makes some sense for a hallucinopedia.
I made an SCP foundation inspired page: https://halupedia.com/hard-to-detroy-reptile
My favorite link generated there is the Institute for Unyielding Biology: https://halupedia.com/institute-for-unyielding-biology
Give it a week and see what Google AI Overview has to say about the Great Pigeon Census of 1887!
It's pretty fun to poke at! Although it's certainly difficult to be exact, it would be neat if generated pages used the context of the pages they were linked from (ideally, all pages that link to it) to guide the direction of the page. From the ones I generated it seemed they were mostly independent.
It’s been defaced. It’s already got sex crimes and antisemitism all over the place.
UPDATE: Just now, comment section added. Have a nice time arguing!
Ironically, this seems much faster (for pages already, erm, "researched") than the real one! How?
Fascinating https://halupedia.com/order-of-whispering-monks https://halupedia.com/church-of-the-singing-stones Many parallels here
Absolutely perfect. Monty Python on demand.
One suggestion for improvement is avoiding creation of self referential links. For example https://halupedia.com/chaldic-arithmetic has many references links to itself.
Funny, but you could argue this is actively harmful to the web.
This site is going to be expensive when a web crawler hits it. A honey pot that burns tokens.
Very interesting how it works: https://halupedia.com/inner-workings-of-hallucinopedia
But not without risk! https://halupedia.com/dangers-of-a-virtual-llm-backed-encycl...
I love it. What’s the rough architecture of the system (using cloud LLM and paying $$$, or local)? The performance for new entries is really good. What is the prompt for each entry and how do you keep the steampunk vibe going?
Why isn't this .gov
I'm having a blast adding new seeds :)
https://halupedia.com/fcuk-spellchecking-society https://halupedia.com/characterization-of-the-reluctant-peng...
Can't wait to see the next generation of LLMs after feeding it all of that hahaha
Seeing “Something broke, which is ironic for a made-up encyclopedia: Load failed” when trying to access some of the suggested starting points
It's nice, but after a few clicks my LLM content fatigue kicks in.
Lots of antisemitism on there. Search “Jews”
The All Entries (https://halupedia.com/all-entries) part of the site is a bit alarming. I think OP might want to do a little bit of basic automoderation here.
I wonder how long it will be before Canis dementialis becomes a standalone meme.
Funny. Small improvement suggestion: the entry about "Glorbonian culinary arts" links to "the subterranean nation of Glorbonia". However upon clicking the link to "Glorbonia", an entry is generated claiming that "Glorbonia refers to a peculiar and largely uncatalogued form of sub-auditory resonance". It would be cool if some context were carried over from the referrer page so that there is some coherence between entries (ah, and some existing entries could be taken in account when generating new ones).
Love it! It feels very Borges!
Feature request: also be able to click on the Talk page to see the controversies. I don't always want to trust the article itself as the final word.
Edit: Oh look, there's an article about the YC! https://halupedia.com/y-combinator
Great idea! I created an adjacent website that gives, shall we say, "alternative facts" about your questions. (don't know if the rules allow me to link the site so I won't).
Currently breaks if you try to create a page with a Japanese slug. Multiple languages would make this an even more valuable resource than it already is.
https://halupedia.com/computer
This is perfect. Very Neal Stephensony.
Also, this, but with no AI: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=032krqe6bjn5au78
Just incredible prose and writing (and gameplay), with something you can run with Frotz/NFrotz/LectRote or any ZMachine interpreter (or Glulxe like Gargoyle). A Pentium would run this and marvel you in a similar way.
No need to waste tons of water in datacenters.
I find the handling of NSFW topics (and how it avoids making them nsfw) really interesting. Eg https://halupedia.com/fuck (aside from the title it seems SFW to me)
Hm, the page generated seems inconsistent with the usage of the original link.
This is what every LLM will converge into without curated human input.
I LOVE IT. Superb.
this is excellent haha
As I said in another comment, this is brilliant. Suggestion: Remove anything that isn't part of the satire; act always as if it's a 'real' encyclopedia. For example on the front page I would remove,
> Articles are generated on demand and stored permanently upon first request.
Don't dispell the magic; don't pull back the curtain and let people see the mechanics.
EDIT: As you say in your system prompt, "You never wink at the reader. You never acknowledge that anything is funny or fictional. Everything is reported as though it is completely normal and well-documented"
Who says llms can't be funny?!
wtf, I thought these were just anecdotes until I saw they were actually happening in Astoria. I used to visit in the summers and never heard about any of that! Stop the fake news
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My favorite of the several I generated this evening:
https://halupedia.com/recursive-trolley-problem