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Fabricated Encyclopedia Mimics a Real Scholarly Archive
Faustine Ngila writes the following in “This Wikipedia Clone Is Built Entirely on Things That Never Happened” for ImpactNews: A new Wikipedia-style website is built entirely from AI hallucinations, offering users an endless stream of fabricated knowledge that nonetheless manages to feel strangely coherent. The project, called Halupedia, presents itself as an ‘infinite’ encyclopedia in which every search term or clicked link triggers a large language model on the backend to generate new content on the fly. The result is a sprawling system of invented facts, presented in the formal tone of a 19th-century scholarly archive. … From the moment users land on the homepage, the project makes clear that it is an experiment in artificial fabrication. But once inside, the experience can resemble a functioning knowledge base, complete with hyperlinks, citations, and academic-style quotations. Some entries even include footnotes, which are themselves also invented. For more information, read the article.
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