Hacker News

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.

Exactly, but I consider adding fake search that could find you ANY article, including not existent ones

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]

https://halupedia.com/chronic-anaspepsis [fail]

https://halupedia.com/ancient-egyptian-algebra [OK]

This is wonderful. I just spat out the first phrase that came to my mind and boom:

https://halupedia.com/liminal-darkbeast

I tried it myself but I only get page generation failures

https://halupedia.com/the-alien-wizard-war-of-1425

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

https://halupedia.com/spatial-bowel-movement-observatory

https://halupedia.com/hamberder-helper

Hit the Stumble link at the top right of all pages - its as good as a search when the whole thing is made up!

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.

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.

Yeah...I clicked on the "Stumble" link and it was right in my face.

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.

The readers of Hacker News are almost certainly responsible. I found these pages within a minute of browsing randomly.

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.

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.

So disappointing. People are garbage.

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.

By Featherton, no less.

I made the same thing months ago, so you don't need to wait:

https://encyclopedai.stavros.io

there's a typo in your first title

Update: Implemented it. All new articles work that way

Yeah, thought about that, maybe will implement it. Will keep in mind! For now SSR to feed LLMs' the priority

It's hilarious, you made my day hahah

I honestly forgot that Grokipedia existed. Did anyone ever use it?

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...

I'm curious, what is the LLM cost of the website?

@bstrama, maybe you can have a process running that just iterates through the titles of different pages, and deletes the bad ones?

p.s. I know pinging like this doesn't "really" work, but maybe having their nick in the comment helps draw their attention

It generates articles only once. So once it's generated, it never perish. Logic looks like: If article exist -> show it If not -> generate and save

I wouldn't. And, I'd think less of anyone who does make that argument.

Anyone of reasonable intelligence can easily tell this is a parody of an encyclopedia. Saying this is bad for the web is like saying The Onion is bad for the web.

It's probably only harmful to the AI scrapers that train from the web. Most people will understand the purpose of this -- to poison LLM training in a humorous way, which is really easy to do. It exemplifies a major weakness in modern day AI.

You could also argue that the web has failed and poisoning it into irrelevance is a vital service, motivating humans to collect knowledge into immutable sources. We‘ll call them ‘libraries.’

Interesting, but you could argue comments like this are actively harmful to the web.

The sooner the current web dies, the better. Something better either rises from its ashes, or we lose... something that was already lost.

On the other hand, one could argue that anything that can be destroyed by relatively clearly labeled satire, deserves to be.

A web that is vulnerable to this would already be as good as dead.

As an entertaining way to highlight the importance of upgrading our ways of knowing, playful (& open-source!) projects like this are likely to strengthen the web.

Any training data scraper that blindly takes stuff from websites deserves to have their model poisoned by this nonsense.

> you could argue

Could you? I don't see it happening, but I could be wrong.

To the web? It's fantastic for the web, these are the kinds of fun projects that make the web a worthwhile place to be. To slop generators? Yes, absolutely harmful, and that's for the best.

Grokipedia is already doing that.

Pissing on a pile of shit

They’re caching the pages which have already been generated. You could go back and delete all references to pages which don’t exist yet. Basically turn it into a static website.

I guess the LLM provider stopped working after the defacement articles.

The page requires JS to load its content - user agents without JS support just get a blank page.

I'm not sure if the bots that scrape data to train LLMs are capable of loading that type of page, or if they only work on pages that have the content inside the HTML itself?

Works on my PC.

Could you gimme the url that's failing?

Plan 9/9front's bullshit(1) tool works kinda like these but without requiring an $6k machine.

Reminds me of a (perhaps) more fanciful risk of fictional encyclopaedias: https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content...

Actually interesting response. You can also check out github.

Already swarmed by Epstein's private troll army, I suppose (/pol/).

Feels like this will eventually cause collisions, although perhaps nothing multiple definitions of Glorbonia and multiple biographies of different Mrs Wiggles (perhaps with Wikipedia style disambiguation) can't solve

Btw, I've noticed just now that Glorbonia is, in the first entry, a "subterranean nation" and in the second it's a "sub-auditory resonance". So I got curious and I asked Opus what he thinks about the word Glorbonia: "Do you detect in the word a sense of place? North, south, east, west, up, down?". And Opus answers "Down, weirdly. Or maybe low — something subterranean, or at least sunken." Curious.

Just added comment section :)

Great suggestion! Will immediately look into that!

> Edit: Oh look, there's an article about the YC! https://halupedia.com/y-combinator

This should be on YC's About page.

This kind of Absurdist humour reminds me of the Marx Brothers or the Tip y Coll Spaniards.

And the Sokal case with the Humanities branches, for sure.

BTW: https://halupedia.com/postmodernism

This is golden.

https://halupedia.com/paradox

Best entry, hands down. This is a love letter to Prattchett.

Now I want to know the site.

In today's world it does not take long to be reminded that we cannot have nice things. Or maybe the gov't has their own bot army to wreak havoc and convince voters that actually, we really do want privacy-ending ID verification laws after all.

Best part - I didn't implement such logic. It just for some reason works that way.

All the world are going mad with artificial intelligence and LLMs. Just disgusting!

Allow me.

You can name an article anything you want, and the thing will generate content, though not necessarily relevant to the title you chose.

So some vandal comes along and supplies a hateful title, et voila.

This is irresponsible for people who don't get it, takes away confirmation for people who do get it, and makes me block/blacklist any liar who does it.

Why is this example non-encyclopedic? It's an informative, falsifiable statement that could be supported by a citation, like here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thongbu_Wainucha#:~:text=remem...