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Show HN: Are You in the Weights? (intheweights.com)

471 points by turtlesoup ↗ HN
With more traffic moving off-web and into LLMs, I got curious about what traces we leave "in the weights". My design partner and I built a site in the past few weeks that checks recognition across frontier and small models. It queries many of them in parallel, clusters the responses, and tells you how strongly they recognize you. Happy to answer any questions here!

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pryelluw
Well, according to this I’m a Mexican painter/actor/footballer. Love it.
zingar
Bahaha apparently only in their hallucinations. I’m not a professional rugby player or a neurologist.
hyperpape
I’m a hallucination. None of these are me.

Perhaps the closest is DeepSeek v4:

> Hyperpape is a user on the LessWrong forum, known for thoughtful comments on rationality and philosophy.

I studied philosophy, so maybe, except I don't post on LessWrong, and I'm not a rationalist.

https://www.intheweights.com/p/hyperpape

pixelneon
It looks like something perfect, what is its purpose?
mikeryan
MICHAEL RYAN HUNGERFORD MASSACRE PERPETRATOR 204 STRENGTH · TOP 35%

For fucks sake.

ooloncoloophid
I’m the top one! Interesting to see the hallucinations creeping in across the weaker models.
georgemcbay
"George McBay"

> Llama 3.2 1B says

> American actor, best known for his roles in films such as 'The Big Lebowski' and 'The Big Lebowski 2'.

Nailed it! /s

But even the entries that aren't marked as likely hallucinations are wrong for me on this site.

> George McBay

> African American chemist and educator

No, that's Henry Cecil McBay (no direct relation that I'm aware of).

Google Search's AI mode does match actual me, but the information it spits out is all mixed up with information on another person who has my same name (also no relation that I'm aware of) and is also a software developer.

monknomo
well, the lower confidence ones got my pseudonym, the higher confidence ones missed entirely and attributed it to a prominent speedrunning streamer.

My real name was attributed to a non-existent famous midfield footballer

rolfvandekrol
There is a 'hallucinations' section on the page, which suggests that the items above that section are not hallucinated. I highly doubt that.

I am, as far a I know the only person in the world with my name. So I searched for my name. I am none of many things this tool tells me I am, for example a right wing politician, a journalist,l and a researcher on solar fuels.

tiagobraw
Interesting. Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.1 Lite kind of got it right, but when I ask the model directly, they say they don't know. I'm curious how the tool is doing the correlation.
NoMoreNicksLeft
My username shows up as me. My real name is apparently shared by more real people than I figured (surname is an oddball). That guy's a CEO and billionaire. Go figure, never heard of him until just now.
dvt
I have a unique last name (maybe that's why), but pretty much nailed it:

    David Titarenco
    Software engineer and open-source contributor

    340 strength · Top 20%

    GPT-5.5 says
    Software engineer and writer known for work
    on developer tools, systems, and programming-
    related articles.

    Claude Opus 4.8 says
    Software engineer and entrepreneur known for
    web/JavaScript development work and contributions
    to open-source projects and tech startup communities.
dmix
First response for me was also a hallucinated Scottish soccer player who doesn't exist
kevin42
Can you share the prompt you're using for each model?
presidentender
Strangely only "Kimi" has accurately heard of me. Gemini thinks I'm a German-language version of the stuff I do in English, Kimi recognizes my long-defunct blogging about technology and economics.
floren
Well, guess we'll have to wait a bit to see if we're in the weights... I got a 429, as I'm sure many others are (and thus mashing retry).
Alive-in-2025
This is a clever trick to get you to enter your real name. ;-) I entered mine, I was on the page kind of, there was some kind of exaggeration of me as the last one. I was surprised someone else in my family who is a kind of actual famous person was not found. It seems to have a lot of recency bias based on that.
athrow
Apparently gpt 5.5 thinks I’m a metal folk musician, i wish.
_fzslm
Love the graphics, the 8-bit style of the people's portraits is really well done. Are those AI generated?
irishcoffee
An they nailed me, as soon as I clicked the link I saw “rate exceeded”
lackoftactics
Nice, I am not good enough engineer to be in the weights
reactordev
They all know me to 68%-88% certainty. “Known for my contributions to open source”, yeah, sure, let’s go with that ;)
kjuulh
Interesting Mistral sort of knew something about me, both gpt and deepseek produced the same answer more or less. I wonder why xD, only gemini knew my online handle mostly github and rust which is interesting.
VarunMenon
super cool!! I love the idea and the UI