Tumblr(?) post where AI scraped a wiki with fake information
I have this distinct memory of what I believe was a Tumblr post talking about how, I think it was Claude, temporarily crashed their storage/data on this wiki or Wikipedia like host site they had because it was making so many viewing requests. The poster thought it was hilarious because the bot, I still think it was Claude but I guess it might've been ChatGPT, had devoured a pile of what was essentially crud. The page I remember them showing was a page about grilled cheese and I think it was purposefully misspelled so it was like...crilled gheese? Gheese? But the link to the page was a normal "grilled cheese," so the bot would download a page on grilled cheese and get garbage data back. Self poisoned itself with garbage data.
I think the entire wiki was like this. Readable but complete nonsense. At this point I almost have convinced myself it was a fever dream but I DON'T think it was. I thought it was hilarious and wanted to show my friends the fake grilled cheese page but I couldn't find it when I feverishly looked online.
Posted Sep 12, 2026, 8:41 AM UTC