alt Hacker NewsYeah, that went about as well as I would have expected.
It dug up a bunch of what can only be my information, then made up a bunch of confidently wrong things to say about me.
I'm a Software Engineer and SaaS guy, known for running the company "[random word from my blog] Software" and his [different word from my blog] Blog. Founder of three separate startups I've never heard of and may not exist, and well known contributor to Open Source (because that's something that software people often do, so it makes for pretty words to put into a paragraph, despite me not contributing to open source).
Overall, it's like watching a really bad sight reader doing his act. It suggests something that's likely true about you given your background, then keeps tweaking those suggestions until you go "yeah, that's it! you nailed me!".
Sadly, this is pretty par for the course watching AI try to do stuff.
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Mine got me 100% wrong. I recognise some of the information as that of some people with the same surname as me though
I thought it would've just had the information from my linkedin
I have a last name that only my family holds in Denmark (which means me and my brother by now), yet it managed to tag me a Professional Football Player, MP for the Socialist Party and Founder of a Sleep Mattress Company.
I do like the visuals though.
> Overall, it's like watching a really bad sight reader doing his act.
After a few clear fabrications, in the hallucinations it suggests I might be "a private individual" about who there's not much information.
I mean, I guess oh my gosh that's me but...
I don't know what people expect. If you ask a random person to recall anyone they've ever known, you're going to get a lot of "don't they have a blog called <random word> software? And maybe they're into photography too?". That's just how information works.
The only difference with an LLM is that it won't say "maybe".
Im an adult content creator and artist, apparently.
I am neither.