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Posted by turtlesoup 7 days ago

Show HN: Are You in the Weights?(www.intheweights.com)
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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RajT88 6 days ago|
There is a Country-Pop singer songwriter with my name. Also a 1940's running back for the Giants.

Then there is a third one which might be a hallucination (that one ironically appears to be me, and the other two are hallucinations).

internet_points 6 days ago||
It has me through my open source contributions, but interestingly it claims the same regardless of what I use as a given name, as long as I keep the (fairly unique) surname. So my whole extended family are open source contributors.
dhosek 7 days ago||
So despite publishing a lot of fiction and poetry I’m apparently most well known for my contributions to the TeX, LaTeX and typography communities. It also thinks I’m a professional athlete having played professional baseball hockey and basketball.
turtlesoup 7 days ago|
Interesting, that probably reveals something about the training set for most of these models
dhosek 6 days ago||
I discovered on a later try that “D A HOSEK” gives different results than “D. A. HOSEK” with the latter actually surfacing my writing, although all the summaries are full of amusing hallucinations.

The weird thing was that putting my kids’ names in (they are 12 and have no on-line presence), the system hallucinated fictional versions of them that matched their interests (my daughter a singer/actor/artist, my son a software engineer). My ex-wife, who has a published computer book to her name, on the other hand, was hallucinated as four different activists in different areas of interest.

porridgeraisin 6 days ago||
A semi-famous-in-academia family member seems to be in all of the weights, except for llama3.2 1B and qwen3 8B. You'd expect the 1B to be the worst, but actually it got quite close.. qwen3 8B was a complete hallucination.
Tade0 6 days ago||
It confused me with an academic with the same last name[0], so I guess I'm not notable enough to be in the weights.

[0] Which is uncommon to begin with, so that person might be the only one with it who is in the weights.

ryukoposting 7 days ago||
Initial reaction was "wow! I guess I have the same name as a Canadian actor!" And then I looked it up and figured out that I do not, in fact, share my name with a Canadian actor. Kimi K2 and GLM both hallucinated the same thing.
sltkr 7 days ago||
It nailed 2 out of 4, which I'm not going to repeat to preserve a modicum of privacy.

But unfortunately I'm not a professional footballer _or_ a fictional character in a Henry James novel (though I looked up the reference and it's close!)

jjude 6 days ago||
Apparently, I am "in the weights". Kimi gets it correctly: https://www.intheweights.com/p/joseph-jude
kjuulh 7 days ago||
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.
kylecazar 7 days ago|
Apparently I share a name with a prominent white nationalist activist. Yikes.
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