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314 An Entire Wikipedia That's 100% AI Hallucinations

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/16/2026 18:34 EDT

An Entire Wikipedia That's 100% AI Hallucinations

"Every link leads to an entry that does not exist yet," explains the GitHub page for a Wikipedia-like site called Halupedia. "Until you click it, at which point an LLM pretends it has always existed and writes it for you, in the deadpan register of a 19th-century scholarly press..."


Every article is invented on demand. The footnotes are also lies... The hardest problem with an infinite, on-demand encyclopedia is internal contradiction... When the LLM writes an article, it is required to add a context="...

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