A bit of fun
A Polish man has created Halupedia – a wiki of hallucinated articles. The way it works, you do a search for something and an LLM has been trained to create a Wikipedia style absurdist article on the topic, complete with citations and links to other Halupedia articles.
Once you’ve done that, your entry becomes a permanent part of the growing collection. It’s fun for a few minutes. It’s clear some people have tried to break it, for example by using long strings of one character in their query (there’s always somebody) and it’s going to get ugly if he doesn’t do a bit of housecleaning.
I tried to generate an article and it immediately told me I was over my limit and sent me to buy me a coffee. As I hadn’t generated any articles, it’s obviously pay to play.
You can comment for free, though, and Halupedia will make up an amusing name for you. The image is from the entry on the Ministry of Terribly Wrong Maps. That’s AI for you – the man in the center has a left hand like unto a pig’s trotter.
Posted: May 19th, 2026 under personal.
Comments: 6
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Comment from Uncle AL
Time: May 19, 2026, 9:18 pm
Those clothes! I hadn’t realized the organizational ancestry of SATNAV went back that far.
Comment from QuasiModo
Time: May 19, 2026, 11:48 pm
Must be using the cheap AI since they took down Sora 🙂
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: May 20, 2026, 12:11 am
The last escapist fare I enjoyed was Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).
There has got to be some safe, useful employment for A.I. that wouldn’t generate dark stories and suspicions of mental imbalance.
Maybe horse race handicapping…
Comment from p2
Time: May 20, 2026, 12:46 am
As Lech Walesa is my witness I saw Polish man & halupedia and my mind read Halupkedia. Halupke (there are various spellings)being a Polish stuffed cabbage roll and a very familiar sight at the family table when I was a youngster. I’m not sure just what a halupkedia would actually do….
Comment from dissent555
Time: May 20, 2026, 4:05 pm
Looks like Tonyc takes the DP
Comment from blake
Time: May 22, 2026, 5:55 am
Well, I can’t imagine they could afford to let just anyone burn up tokens like that. It would bankrupt them. Of course, this also means, people are paying to try to break it.
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