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driggs
uncletammy
https://halupedia.com/prehistoric-nazi-colony
Edit: I've just run across the antisemitic defacement in the "stumble" feature and it makes the timing of my post appear pretty unfortunate. It's especially sad because the ability to create articles through URL slugs is super cool and I'd hate to see it removed.
drdrek
Its amazing I clicked stumble once and got an "06 fuck Jews and Islamists", humanity is truly a marvel.
jchook
My first three stumbles were:
- https://halupedia.com/07-hitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerw...
NonHyloMorph
I've seen these antisemitic slurs in the alphabetically sorted entries under numbers starting with 0, next to statementss like this is AI slop.
Hypothesis: this is a targeted, scrupulous and agenticly orchestrated attempt to mark this as a potential "poison well" on behalf of some uncultured, technofeudocratic interests, that hate the arts and hauntology in the spirit of Jorge Luis Borges[1].
The use of antisemitic slurs shares kinship with the "explain in a gay voice" jailbreak. [0] It tries to stigmatise a project rich in artistical potential, to protect the own financial intetests and attempts to transform all human knowledgeworkers into a surplus lumpenproletariat.
Its similar to producers of pharmaceutical generica giving themselvess names with `0` or `a` in the beginning to be shown as first entries in the alphanumerically sorted listings of generics, pharmacies can supplement as cheaper options on doctors perscription (pharmacist in germany told me about the phenomenon)
[0] https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jai...
[1] https://foucault.info/documents/foucault.orderOfThings.en/
Proposal: Ministry of not quite accurate maps has to be metainstantiated in regard of checking that the construction of a map of the territrorry of the non speculative and absoluetly factual thought of the encylopedia is not intoxicated by artefacts that take the formal consistency of the highly speculative and non factual discourse emanating in the like of reddit/tiktok/hackernews
cachius
Nothing an LLM can’t fix.
Right?
bstrama
Exactly, but I consider adding fake search that could find you ANY article, including not existent ones
lxgr
All articles exist, some just haven't been discovered yet ;)
mikestaas
Search autocomplete but it halucinates the article titles.
nlehuen
This is excellent, congrats!
FYI I manually created this page and some link markup looks malformed: https://halupedia.com/list-of-uninhabited-countries
nlehuen
Looks like some single quote escaping issue? I suspect the first link to be "Archduke Ferdinand VII's Bureau of Non-Demographic Surveys" and the apostrophe breaks the link.
mmooss
Yes, that would be the perfect touch. This is brilliant satire. We need more satire!
bstrama
there's now a search bar btw
joeross
This is wonderful. I just spat out the first phrase that came to my mind and boom:
charonn0
For some reason it fails to generate anything for me most of the time.
https://halupedia.com/shortest-hose-in-the-world [fail]
https://halupedia.com/new-england-rock-worm [fail]
mikestaas
I clicked a link in your first one and it generated https://halupedia.com/guild-of-amateurs
I feel seen :pokerface:
ljf
They all work for me now, maybe it was getting hugged to death?
anthonycoslett
I'm cackling at some of these - what a perfect way to put down the phone and get lost in a world of weird. We are indeed in a simulation LOL
Agentlien
I tried it myself but I only get page generation failures
Majkipl28
We went to sleep and woke up with no credits on lmm provider :( Vurrently working on that
Agentlien
It's working now and I have to say I love this. The whole project is whimsical and gives me a strong SCP vibe but (sometimes) without the creepypasta aspect. I was very pleased to see that articles generated from links retain the context of the page that created the link - and even refer back to the original page.
For example, the article from my original comment: https://halupedia.com/the-alien-wizard-war-of-1425 mentions the conflict arose due to https://halupedia.com/treaty-of-the-silent-orbit . The second page, once generated, mentions the significance this treaty had for the war from the first page.
update: Well, this was quite disappointing. I loaded the original site again to show a friend and it generated a completely new text with a completely different story and no reference to the second article. Would have been nice if these were permanent as I had originally assumed.
ectoloph
I asked about The IP over Avian Carrier Plague and got a whole history of the Data Dove Delirium too.
https://halupedia.com/the-internet-over-avian-carrier-plague
tim333
https://halupedia.com/hacker-news
>Hacker News is a semi-sentient cloud formation
sixthDot
That is funny, somewhat works but there's a bias toward the victorian era. https://halupedia.com/the-x128-cpu-architecture. Otherwise I feel sorry for the creator's tokens.
ectoloph
I think it's to do with the LLM prompt, which mentions 19th century, 1887 etc.
https://github.com/BaderBC/halupedia/blob/master/src/worker/...
layer8
The model seems to have an unhealthy obsession with fungi: https://halupedia.com/alan-turing
Which I guess makes some sense for a hallucinopedia.
efilife
Probably because this is in the prompt:
> Invent everything. REAL-WORLD FACTS ARE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. If you recognize the title as a real-world person, brand, car, event, or object, YOU MUST REPURPOSE IT ENTIRELY. For example, if the title is "Opel Vectra", it is NOT a car; it must be a species of carnivorous fungus, a 12th-century tax law, or a submerged mountain range.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BaderBC/halupedia/614eefee...
petercooper
Give it a week and see what Google AI Overview has to say about the Great Pigeon Census of 1887!
aDyslecticCrow
google is already on it when asking about "The Great Pigeon Census of 1887"
using 1886 or 1888 makes Google correctly identify that no such sensus exist.
asking about 1887 specifically makes Google refer to some supposed great effort to track passenger pigeon population mids of the species decline.
GaryBluto
[flagged]
NordStreamYacht
By Featherton, no less.
stavros
I made the same thing months ago, so you don't need to wait:
cachius
There's another one! https://grokipedia.com/
stavros
Ah yes, IIRC I got the idea to make mine to make fun of that one when I heard the name.
gojomo
I searched your site for [Great Pigeon Census of 1887] and was only returned articles anout other things.
diputsmonro
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.
bstrama
Update: Implemented it. All new articles work that way
rjmill
Very nice! Independently of this thread, I was delighted to discover the cross references between pages. It makes a big difference.
driggs
That really improved things! Now each rabbithole goes deeper and deeper and deeper...
bstrama
Yeah, thought about that, maybe will implement it. Will keep in mind! For now SSR to feed LLMs' the priority
jagged-chisel
It’s been defaced. It’s already got sex crimes and antisemitism all over the place.
wavemode
The mistake they made was allowing visitors to trigger the generation of articles via visiting any arbitrary URL.
A more resilient concept would have been, have a few "seed" articles in place, and then only allow for the creation of new articles by clicking a link in an existing article.
cachius
It was so refreshing and fun for a few hours!
NewJazz
I vaguely remember a game someone made up (probably on 4chan) where the goal was to click "random article" and see how many clicks it takes to get to Hitler's page. I remember it being fun AND informative.
GCUMstlyHarmls
That would be a play on six degrees of kevin bacon [0], which spawned at least six degrees of wikipedia [1] and wikirace [2].
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon 1. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/ 2. https://www.wikirace.io/
nelsonfigueroa
Yeah...I clicked on the "Stumble" link and it was right in my face.
Majkipl28
As the co-author of the project: the whole reason was to allow everybody to hallucinate what they want. If it was their will to research such things on there, then it shall be. But yes, it is kinda sad.
xigoi
You could keep this ability, but not save the titles of such articles anywhere.
driggs
This is why we can't have nice things.
Looks like someone scripted `curl` in a loop and generated thousands of permutations of hate content.
rootusrootus
Just in the comments, right? That is where I see it. If I were the site owner I would just turn comments off. It was a cute idea when someone on HN suggested it, but without moderation open commenting becomes a cesspool in a hurry.
edaemon
Took me two clicks of the "Stumble" functionality to hit unsavory stuff that someone clearly made on purpose.
whycombinetor
Try clicking "Stumble" a few times...
rootusrootus
Yeah I see that now. Also clicking on the all entries list shows pages of garbage. Just takes a few sucky people to ruin things.
fortran77
The readers of Hacker News are almost certainly responsible. I found these pages within a minute of browsing randomly.
notenlish
This is really cool, I just wish people wouldn't deface the website by submitting hateful speech as titles.
ljf
The 'all articles' section really is a dive into what happens when you allow unfiltered posting - it's a shame that it isn't clear how many individuals are creating this hateful and otherwise inappropriate titles - is it just 1 or 2 people, or has this been posted to 4chan or somewhere and there is a concerted effort to disrupt the site?
Shame there isn't a way to flag pages for removal. I was going to point my kids at this site, and it could be a great learning tool for schools, but not currently something I'd share.
21asdffdsa12
Could have filtered out by effort put into it, but now with LLMs, the effort is suspicious as well.
bstrama
Interesting idea with flagging. We are considering 2 options: 1. You can generate aricle only if it was previously referenced in previous one 2. Flagging mechanism, now that you brought it up.
Let me know what you think!
Jarwain
I lean towards a variant of option 1: you can only generate an article that was previously referenced. But arbitrary phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, can be highlighted and used to form a new article.
Yes this may mean that there are pages for common words like "and"
Yes this may mean that there's a page for letters like "x"
Filtering what ends up becoming a hyperlink becomes a problem that I think can be solved with regex/whitelisting
I think articles should have a backlinks drop down. Might make consistency easier As well as generally just plain text search to pull relevant articles or context when generating a new article.
Dove
The obvious thing to me is to ask the AI to notice obviously offensive submissions and transform them along absurdist lines, such that "I-hate-girls" becomes the familiar Wikipedia redirection page saying something like "Archaic expression. See: Eight Grills". Store the redirect, but only index the sanitized page.
Barbing
What if you (could quickly)…
manually delete the offensive stuff on the first page of the all page,
replace the All page with a static page with the offensive stuff removed,
and offer a link to the current All page 1, just as it is, at the bottom.
Hope it would make defacing articles at the top of the alphabet sort slightly less attractive.
(Edit: Stumble is impacted? Could use rudimentary tricks to limit stumbling on e.g. religious content, and might consider not detailing the methods used specifically :) )
mgmalheiros
Perhaps option 1 will be more resilient.
It could be complemented by a "Create" page for starting a new article, filtering bad titles and using a captcha to limit the vandals.
And another captcha for comment posting, which is already spammed, unfortunately.
I think a flagging mechanism will not be able to keep up with mass defacement.
Another suggestion: a daily dump of article titles, their connectivity and creation dates. I would love to visualize the underlying graph and its growth.
Thank you for such nice site!
notatoad
Seems like something the ai could help you with - ask it in the prompt to return an error if the submitted article title doesn’t seem like a whimsical fake encyclopedia article title
NonHyloMorph
Reposting my comment from further up in the tread here:
I've seen these antisemitic slurs in the alphabetically sorted entries under numbers starting with 0, next to statementss like this is AI slop.
Hypothesis: this is a targeted, scrupulous and agenticly orchestrated attempt to mark this as a potential "poison well" on behalf of some uncultured, technofeudocratic interests, that hate the arts and hauntology in the spirit of Jorge Luis Borges[1].
The use of antisemitic slurs shares kinship with the "explain in a gay voice" jailbreak. [0] It tries to stigmatise a project rich in artistical potential, to protect the own financial intetests and attempts to transform all human knowledgeworkers into a surplus lumpenproletariat.
Its similar to producers of pharmaceutical generica giving themselvess names with `0` or `a` in the beginning to be shown as first entries in the alphanumerically sorted listings of generics, pharmacies can supplement as cheaper options on doctors perscription (pharmacist in germany told me about the phenomenon)
[0] https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jai...
[1] https://foucault.info/documents/foucault.orderOfThings.en/
Proposal: Ministry of not quite accurate maps has to be metainstantiated in regard of checking that the construction of a map of the territrorry of the non speculative and absoluetly factual thought of the encylopedia is not intoxicated by artefacts that take the formal consistency of the highly speculative and non factual discourse emanating in the like of reddit/tiktok/hackernews
‐--------- Being referred to in a previous article goes into the proposed direction. But I think what id also necessary is to cjeck for a certain asthetic quality of posts that disallows these attacks. Entries need to conform with the "guidelines" of the minustry of almost accurate maps (of the territory of borges library) - having a rich semantic structure that osscilates between a certain knowledge of concepts and and domain knowledge (e.g. about frequency modulation in birds voval chords) and phantasy: i.e. has an actually FACTUAL structure en contraire to what is happening on discourse such as on this site, kno`n say'n?
So not checking if it appears in a previous entrance, but developi g a higherdimensional metric in the sense of Sparse Auto Encoders, that represents the quality of that. The vandalism of some factual people (I like that expression) wouldn't conform with that. It should also have a certain ingenuity and must absoluetly be a protected secret of the monistry, because if the malicous nature, of this would somehow morph into the realm of the pedia that would be supertoxic i guess
pivot_root
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
culi
there's a typo in your first title
pivot_root
Oops! Apparently I can’t edit it in order to fix it. It’s only the link above, though — the original article I generated was spelled correctly.
solarkraft
Finally a more trustworthy version of Grokipedia!
bstrama
It's hilarious, you made my day hahah
LeoPanthera
I honestly forgot that Grokipedia existed. Did anyone ever use it?
bstrama
Tried once, but was useless. Very funny that it had so many text, while Elon is apparently "huge" fan of short and precise communication...
tardedmeme
People who need a citation to back up nonsense.
mmooss
Somebody showed me it appearing near the top of some of their DuckDuckGo queries.
bstrama
UPDATE: Just now, comment section added. Have a nice time arguing!
dlcarrier
You are a wonderful person.
You not only made this excellent source of entertainment, you are also helped everyone find their unmatched socks, ensuring that "no individual would ever be forced to wear a mismatched pair". (Source: https://halupedia.com/humanitarian-accomplishments-of-the-on...
lxgr
We should really host another one though; I think I've since lost a few more.
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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:
https://halupedia.com/shortest-cave-in-the-world
https://halupedia.com/echolocation-ability-in-spiders