In the past, individuals often turned to search engines to find out what information was available about them online. Today, a new service called In the Weights, created by former OpenAI staff members Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn, provides insights into what AI models know about you. This innovative platform queries various AI models, including Grok, Gemini, GPT, Claude, Llama, and others, with a straightforward question: "Who is
The smaller AI models are particularly intriguing due to their limited capacity, which forces them to be discerning in the information they remember. For instance, if a one-billion-parameter Llama model recognizes a person, it signifies that the individual is deemed significant enough to retain in memory.
The scoring system is based on how consistently multiple models portray someone in similar terms, with the highest possible score being 996. This top score is typically reserved for highly recognized personalities like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare, Taylor Swift, Barack Obama, and Kurt Cobain. Additionally, the platform sheds light on instances of hallucination, where models generate strange, inaccurate, or entirely fabricated responses.
Users have the option to check their own scores or those of their friends on the site. Are you curious to find out your score on In the Weights?
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