Posted by turtlesoup 6 days ago
GPT-5.5 tells me about the actor, but Claude Opus 4.8 and, weirdly, Grok 4.2 know who I am [1]. I wonder if that's because I use Claude more? Grok I have no clue why.
Fortunately, my real life namesake, a gay porn performer, didn't register though. Short career span I guess.
https://www.intheweights.com/p/jotalea
it got dismissed as unlikely, though.
It got the job description wrong, but the issues correct. Not too bad. Should've said "asshole with an opinion".
Strangely enough even most tiny models can explain what some of my projects are, including correct historical details. The project websites have my name on it in the contact info and there's other sources connecting it as well. Maybe that gets scrubbed from training data?
Obviously it was a hallucination, but a very detailed and consistent one. Especially as if things had gone slightly differently there's a good chance I could have ended up in Brighton. Plus it's a pretty good name and the books are a fun idea too. Was this my Sliding Doors moment?