alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Fakeipedia – Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist
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.
Comments
Nothing about Uqbar? I swear, mirrors and gen AI are hateful.
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"
This was fun
For a second I thought this was a replacement for the ads-up-the-waazoo enshittification of Wikia that is Fandom :')
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These are pretty well written, got drawn to a couple of them.