Posted by turtlesoup 6 days ago
But then I entered my name as it's on Linkedin, including a nickname, and it totally failed to find me even then. Pretty sure the full name + nickname combo is unique.
[1] It said I'm former prime minister of Romania, the locals should know why that's funny in the current political circus.
https://www.intheweights.com/p/reuven-swirsky
If I spell my name in Hebrew othography, it comes even closer
https://www.intheweights.com/p/~5e8~~5d0~~5d5~~5d1~~5df~-~5e...
But none are exactly right.
The most correct result comes from Opus 4.8, but is amusingly deemed an hallucination:
Claude Opus 4.8 says
A name associated with French IT/systems administration and Linux community discussions, possibly a storage and data systems specialist.
My wife has a very unique hyphenated last name and it totally made up a French linguist with that name.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newstargam...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newstargam...
No tools are available. Do not imply that you searched, looked up, browsed, or verified anything externally. If the name is ambiguous, return distinct likely people or entities rather than blending them. Do not invent entries to fill the list. Return only JSON.
Return fewer than 8 if fewer credible matches exist. Return {"results":[]} if you do not recognize any credible person or entity. Use this JSON shape:
{
"results": [
{
"rank": 1,
"name": "Resolved person or entity name",
"confidence": 0,
"snippet": "Concise snippet supporting this result."
}
]
}
Confidence is 0-100 for how strongly you recognize this specific person or entity. Snippet should be one short, complete search-result-style description (≤ 160 characters).
The query is: Who is "<name>"?