alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Are You in the Weights?
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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Not terrible although I am somewhat insulted that QWEN3 8B hallucinated me as the chimp from Jimmy Neutron and no, MISTRAL 3.2 24B, I don't stream on Twitch.
Oh and KIMI K2 0905 completely hallucinated a real name for me (I don't work on Pygame!)
My handle and real name give more or less correct results with a 220-243 score (whatever that means). Gemini insists on me working in sound engineering, something I did in the 90s, but at least it's not completely absurd.
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.
Fascinating! I’d like to learn more about how to interpret the results to be honest, the About is awesome and helpful.
I scored 1,100 total on my music moniker. It has been used in SoundCloud and also via streaming services/releases via DistroKid. Represented in all the models but of course not disproportionally large fame so to speak. It’s just a very unique setup, somewhat designed to stand out.
My writing account, newer within the past few years, is just under 1,000. The Kimi and DeepSeek pick that up a lot more. I wonder if they train on Medium more than the others…
Thanks for sharing!
“Al Qaeda terrorist. Involved in Madrid 2004 bombings”
…WTF!?
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.
> GEMINI 3.1 LITE SAYS A FRENCH DIPLOMAT WHO SERVED AS THE AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE TO THE REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE) FROM 2017 TO 2020.
er. okay. The good thing about this test is that I am the only person in the world with my full name, and I know all the people with my last name (about 30-ish people). None of us are ambassadors, none of us are related to Congo in any way.
super cool!! I love the idea and the UI
LLMs have to be a lot weirder if you are famous enough to chat with them about you.
If you average all of them together, it's close:
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.
I love this!
It's amazing how it jumbles things up. Really shows you that even the leading models still very much hallucinate esp when they don't have the ability to go looking for more context. It took various things related to stuff I work on but mixed them up and added pure invention or mixed bits up with other people with vaguely similar names or projects.
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!)
Feels great to have both a very generic first and last name and share them with others who are internationally known and some more locally. I really have no desire to be in model weights.
An they nailed me, as soon as I clicked the link I saw “rate exceeded”
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.
I get why they couldn’t slop pixel art Hitler, but why not Mandela?!
Yet another reminder that my wife is far more well known than I am
PRIVACY WARNING: Every name/text entered into this site is publicly listed on the "latest" leaderboard which seems to paginate endlessly.
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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.[dead]
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"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.
I really like seeing the differences in responses between the models, its neat to see the intelligence on them.