It is called Halupedia and contains all the information on historical events such as the Great Pigeon Census of 1887 and insights into the gnomonic mandate of circular reasoning.
One of the oldest a will need to be updated. It’s all true, it’s called Halupedia and it doesn’t provide information but is entirely composed of AI hallucinations. The site generates content instantly at the user’s request and with every click on a link or every search, a language model is activated that drafts encyclopedic entries in the detached and formal tone of Wikipedia. Despite the homepage openly declaring the “satirical!” nature of the project, immersion is guaranteed by a complete documentary apparatus of citations, references to non-existent journals, and meticulously invented footnotes. The user experience is a journey into the surreal, where one can delve into historical events that never occurred, such as the Great Pigeon Census of 1887, promoted by the equally imaginary Royal Society for Avian Enumeration. Among ghost biographies like that of Sir Reginald Featherton and academic treaties on the “gnomic mandate of circular reasoning,” the site exploits AI’s ability to mimic the authority of encyclopedic knowledge. The hypertext structure is real, but the content is hallucinated on the spot.
As writes Futurism, to maintain a shred of coherence in this creative chaos, the developers have implemented a “pre-writing” function that provides the AI with metadata related to already published articles, so that future articles will have all the right references and appropriate links to existing articles. For example: if a new article mentions the year 1887, the text will already contain a link referring to all historical events that occurred on that day, including the aforementioned Great Pigeon Census. In this way, even an encyclopedia made entirely of hallucinations – this is what the responses filled with errors and inventions that AI sometimes provides are called – maintains internal coherence. However, the system is not free from the typical flaws of LLMs (Large Language Models). It happens that one entry contradicts another on chronological details, for example. In any case, Halupedia is not just a game but yet another truth masked as satire (assuming the two things can be separated) about our trust in the authority of written text on the Internet and the ability of machines to simulate an indisputable truth.
