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Someone Made a Fake Wikipedia for AI Hallucinations, and It’s Basically the Internet Eating Itself

Halupedia turns AI hallucinations into fake encyclopedia entries, which is funny until you remember the real internet is also doing this.

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When Wikipedia first launched, there was an understandable fear that its open-source nature would turn humanity’s largest repository of knowledge into a pile of nonsense dominated by propagandists and lunatics. Instead, Wikipedia somehow evolved into one of the most reliable information sources on Earth, a digital Library of Alexandria fueled by obsessive volunteers and endless debates on the validity of a citation.

Now, in the middle of the AI-content apocalypse, that idea of a shared objective reality online feels like it’s slipping away. It already was, but now it’s been thrown into hyperdrive. Large language models are flooding the internet with machine-generated goop at such a pace that people........

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