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Show HN: Fakeipedia – Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist

19 points darajava 6 hours ago 8 comments

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.

marcelo-earth 2 hours ago | parent

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"

randomblock1 50 minutes ago | parent

Google says that writing and conciseness was a big focus for Argon. I suspect it's also been told to to write in wiki style, which usually gets to the point pretty quickly.

nadermx 1 hour ago | parent

This was fun

sinkasapa 1 hour ago | parent

Nothing about Uqbar? I swear, mirrors and gen AI are hateful.

Razengan 1 hour ago | parent

For a second I thought this was a replacement for the ads-up-the-waazoo enshittification of Wikia that is Fandom :')

Jordan-117 1 hour ago | parent

Fun fact: You can change "fandom.com" to "antifandom.com" in any Fandom URL to get a fast, clean, ad-free mirror.

Razengan 46 minutes ago | parent

Bismillah, May the hair on your head never fall

kinduff 30 minutes ago | parent

These are pretty well written, got drawn to a couple of them.