I love the slider that asks how well you know the topic so it can assess how much technobabble it needs to feed you to satisfy your credulity.

https://mycyclopedia.co/

edit: wonder what the slur any% run for this one looks like

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

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    I rate the experience at -100/10. I had very low expectations. I thought it might surprise me by being as high at 2/10. But that proved to be waaaaaaay too optimistic.

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    I just had a bit of curiosity about the info. I assumed (and still assume) it's basically ~75% Wikipedia + ~25% sources that are other "improved" with AI.

    Ninja edit #1: I had given up on the site but when I returned to the page - it had actually loaded.

    Ninja edit #2: I searched for Frank Zappa to see what it would serve me up. But it's stuck. There's a slowly flashing green bar in the middle of the—

    Ninja edit #3: Oh, shit. The page finally loaded!

    Ninja edit #4: Fuck this. Only small parts of the page loaded. It finally finished. The page only is small parts. Haha - what shit. Compared to Wikipedia it's 0/10. It's just a shitty, short page that's ~800 words. And it's useless. The expanded sections are not loaded. You have to click them (green bar time again) and will they actually load? Will the info be even roughly accurate? I don't care. Wikipedia already exists and like the sane non-AI internet - entire pages load.

    I can't even share the link! Why? This...

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    • silent_water [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      the rest of the page loads in silently eventually -- though I had to scroll to actually see any of the text. idk why there's massive headers that show no text there. it's normally about the same quality as the first 800 words and almost immediately contradicts anything said previously.

      edit: the link thing is probably to frustrate people who got it to say a slur and wanted to share their world record attempt. links do work though: https://mycyclopedia.co/e/dccd3ab2-0983-44b5-bc06-aa609c843014 -- they just obviously go bad in 24 hours.