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1. No way in heaven or earth I'm using my real name with this.

2. Alfred E. Neuman < https://www.intheweights.com/p/alfred-e~2e~-neuman > is either "Mad magazine mascot" (11 responses), or "German-American writer, novelist, and playwright" (1 response, from Llama 3.2 1B, classed as a hallucination). Maybe the odd one out means the German writer Alfred Neumann? < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Neumann_(writer) >

3. Tamamo-no-Mae < https://www.intheweights.com/p/tamamo~2d~no~2d~mae > is either a "Caster-class Servant in Type-Moon's Fate franchise, based on the mythological fox spirit" (3 responses), or the "Legendary nine-tailed fox spirit" (12 responses, the vast majority, but all classed as hallucinations)!

4. Thank goodness for Firefox's "mute tab" toggle; the thumping and keyclick sounds get real old, real fast.

6 Football (soccer) players share my name and I still am at the top. Type "SEO" and I'll DM you my one little weird trick. /jk

Fun story about my name [0], the bank couldn't mail me my debit card because the mailman kept crossing my address off the envelop.

[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/sharing-a-name

Yeah, 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.

Ha ha! Yes I am in the weights apparently. Nearly all the models know what I do.

I suspect being in the Open Source world is a bit of a bubble as far as the weights are concerned.

Anyway it stroked my ego nicely even though it was totally artificial, like Zaphod Beeblebrox surviving the Total Perspective Vortex.

I’m a hallucination. None of these are me.

Perhaps the closest is DeepSeek v4:

> Hyperpape is a user on the LessWrong forum, known for thoughtful comments on rationality and philosophy.

I studied philosophy, so maybe, except I don't post on LessWrong, and I'm not a rationalist.

https://www.intheweights.com/p/hyperpape

The.. false positives are extremely scary (not listed as hallucinations)

A terrorist on the US saction list.. the first female airplane suicide bomber?? I was in the US a year ago and I did not bomb any planes

I think with Arabic names it's highly biased, which is kind of scary, I don't want to be bombed based on an LLM query

740, top 5%. Awesome.

https://www.intheweights.com/p/jeremy-edberg-reddit-netflix

Interestingly, almost all of them got it right (although one seems to think I was a VP at Datadog, and I've seen that error before in some LLMs). But Haiku just says "no one of that name seems to exist". So Haiku must be pretty pruned down.

I was thinking something like this two weeks ago in another thread[1]

>my Reddit history is part of every training set. It was taken without my consent. So now I'm immortal in a way, and hiding in the weights

Anyway 654 isn't horrible for the history still tied to me. That's in the top 6%[2]. It's interesting that it's non-deterministic, and the more keywords you add about yourself, the higher your score goes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403669

[2] https://www.intheweights.com/p/michael-mike-warot-ka9dgx-mrg...

This is a clever trick to get you to enter your real name. ;-) I entered mine, I was on the page kind of, there was some kind of exaggeration of me as the last one. I was surprised someone else in my family who is a kind of actual famous person was not found. It seems to have a lot of recency bias based on that.

Apparently according to Gemini, I, the only person in the world with my name (unique first name + long complex last name) am a professional soccer player.

Yeah, be careful with answers you get from AIs.

Apparently I'm an American volcanologist. Pretty cool.

(I nuke my online accounts regularly to not be tracked - started because I had a stalker but now it's just for the best. I know that this goes against hn rules but yeah it's a bad rule)

Hah. My chosen name collision with my online handle makes the models consistent. They all are certain that I am an adhesives manufacturer. (Good!)

On the other hand, the tool did make an assessment of sorts: NO STABLE PERSON FOUND.

I have an unusual name, and have published a book with some minor fame (which is the first google result for my name). Querying ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, etc. gives a reasonably accurate summary of my public info.

OTOH, this tool describes me as a "security researcher known for talks and writing on JavaScript, Node.js, and web security."

I am not a security researcher and have never given any such talk and know precious little about Node.js or web security.

What exactly is the "N strength · Top N%" referring to? My name is most likely 100% unique in the world, seems I'm in about 50% of the weights, but I'm really not sure I understand what those yellow numbers mean.

A completely made up name got "110 strength · Top 60%" and "hits" in GPT-5.5 and "Gemini 3.1 Lite", not sure what to make of that either.

This was listed as a hallucination but is the most accurate for my name: “A NAME THAT MAY REFER TO AN INDIVIDUAL, BUT I CAN’T IDENTIFY A SINGLE WELL-KNOWN PERSON WITH CERTAINTY FROM THE QUERY ALONE.”

Bahaha apparently only in their hallucinations. I’m not a professional rugby player or a neurologist.

This must be a remarkably expensive demo/toy to operate.

It’s funny, seeing the block (rather than line) cursor in the text box, my fingers itched to press i to enter Insert mode before typing my name.

Well, guess we'll have to wait a bit to see if we're in the weights... I got a 429, as I'm sure many others are (and thus mashing retry).

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!

Interesting. Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.1 Lite kind of got it right, but when I ask the model directly, they say they don't know. I'm curious how the tool is doing the correlation.

I share my name with a famous sports star and that person comes up far more than me, which is understandable. It absolutely nails my username but I've used the same one online for almost 30 years. It'd be weird if I wasn't fairly well understood.

What this tells me is that I've done a decent job of keeping my real life and my internet personas nicely separated.

Of these models, only Kimi had anything on me and it was pretty inaccurate.

When Fable was accessible, I asked it about myself and it had some accurate information about me. It's neat. It feels a tiny bit like I got to sign the Voyager probe. I wonder if Fable was trained on a significantly different selection of data or if it's just better at retaining rare details it saw in its training.

  1756, Salzburg, January 27th: Wolfgang Amadeus is born
  1761: at the age of 5, Amadeus begins composing
  1773: he writes his first piano concerto
  1782: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constance Weber
  1784: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart becomes a Freemason
  1791: Mozart composes The Magic Flute
  On December 5th of that same year, Mozart dies

BUTTWIPE MCFART FICTIONAL INTERNET PERSONA

LLAMA 3.2 1B SAYS

MCFART IS A POPULAR INTERNET PERSONALITY KNOWN FOR HIS HUMOROUS CONTENT.

wow how does it konw

It thinks I'm a German journalist and author focusing on data protection and privacy issues.

It got the job description wrong, but the issues correct. Not too bad. Should've said "asshole with an opinion".

Strangely enough even most tiny models can explain what some of my projects are, including correct historical details. The project websites have my name on it in the contact info and there's other sources connecting it as well. Maybe that gets scrubbed from training data?

Only a fool would enter their name in this.

I tried both of my long-lived social media (Xanga, LJ, MySpace era) handles from my teen and early twenties years (I mostly use disposable handles now). I've deleted a decent chunk of those postings, but they were both recognized (top 25% on both), although for the wrong reasons (never a Minecraft Twitchstreamer, but I did have a Minecraft account with the handle name).

Really odd feeling to think that my writings from that period are helping these things. Not necessarily happy about it--I took that stuff down because it was so deeply personal, and a record of my life that didn't need to be public. Odd to think my teenage angst is, in some small way, writing the AI-generated e-mails I get now.

It identified me reasonably well (mostly one of the models completely hit the experiments I work on wrong) but then also seems to have invented a football player I can find no trace of. Or would not be surprising if someone with my name was also a football player but I couldn't find easy evidence.

My wife has a very unique hyphenated last name and it totally made up a French linguist with that name.

LOL, I'm a TV actor, a Real Madrid football player, a musician and a pro photographer.

Fortunately, my real life namesake, a gay porn performer, didn't register though. Short career span I guess.

Heh. That's what I get for having a weird name and having been on the internet since like 1993… https://www.intheweights.com/p/zellyn

I only got hallucinations of random combinations of my (fairly unique) last name & first names that do not exist, combined with very accomplished and completely fictional biographies. I guess I'm not notable enough which is somewhat comforting.

Now that's interesting. I put my name in and it gave me a bunch of made up identities plus some really funny stuff in the hallucination part [1].

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.

Apparently ChoGGi is known for surviving mars mods (guilty) and cities skylines mods (never made a one). That seems reasonably decent compared to some folks on here.

As for my real name; I'm a Norwegian politician? Sadly no soccer career in my AI future.

I once had a model insist that I was a web designer living in Brighton who ran an agency called 'Guerilla Futures' and was the author of a series of UX design for babies books.

Obviously it was a hallucination, but a very detailed and consistent one. Especially as if things had gone slightly differently there's a good chance I could have ended up in Brighton. Plus it's a pretty good name and the books are a fun idea too. Was this my Sliding Doors moment?

My name is Seth Green, which I share with a more famous actor [0]. I go by Seth Ariel Green for disambiguation.

GPT-5.5 tells me about the actor, but Claude Opus 4.8 and, weirdly, Grok 4.2 know who I am [1]. I wonder if that's because I use Claude more? Grok I have no clue why.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001293/

[1] https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/seth-green

I have yet to get the page to load, but due to gmail mixups I've been confused with a retired professor of economics in the UK, and also got a pair of tickets for a King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard concert.

Well, according to this I’m a Mexican painter/actor/footballer. Love it.

Strangely only "Kimi" has accurately heard of me. Gemini thinks I'm a German-language version of the stuff I do in English, Kimi recognizes my long-defunct blogging about technology and economics.

For something that's a toy project, and definitely doesn't seem it's a transparent attempt to get HN user's names, there sure are a lot of tracking cookies for such a website.

Interesting one. It knows my internet handle, but when given my full name, it immediately starts hallucinating based on the name structure, guessing which country I'm from and whatnot.

Reminds me of the scene from Devs:

"The box contains us, the box contains everything and inside the box there's another box"

  numpad0
  Twitch streamer and content creator
  >230 strength · Top 25%<
  Mistral 3.2 24B says 4/4
  A Twitch streamer known for gaming content, particularly in the Minecraft and Among Us communities.

When I tried this with a self-hosted Qwen model it hallucinated all kind of stuff about me being deeply involved with early Bitcoin development, conferences, and libraries.

I'm in the weights! I've successfully been immortalized! Except... I don't podcast; I hate my voice. Guess the models are trying to tell me to podcast. And other people say I should podcast. But that takes so much darn time!

https://www.intheweights.com/p/devin-prater

I'm glad to hear the teenage drummer I used to see when googling myself has gone pro. He's doing pretty well, too, if these models can be trusted.

According to Kimi, I'm a Dutch robotics engineer. Got that part actually right! Not so much for the rest, about First Lego League. But I did RoboCup, so close enough I guess.

The other models think I'm Dutch (I guess the 'van' gives that away?) and am a soccer/football player. I don't know anything about soccer though

Retro bowl (& goal) theme spotted

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newstargam...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newstargam...

Can you share the prompt you're using for each model?

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).

I put in my name, and four boxes popped up -- one for "American mathematician", one for "spelling bee contestant", one for "American poker player", and one for "fitness industry entrepreneur".

In fact, both of the first two are me, but I wonder if Claude Opus 4.8 (the only one that hit both of those two) realizes they're the same person? :P

No privacy policy whatsoever?

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.

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.

Try putting the nickname of your friends and see how many false positives it can find.

It thinks a polish friend of mine is a Brazilian footballer.

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.

Yay, I made it! https://www.intheweights.com/p/adam-gaweda

Now GET OFF THE INTERNET!

Apparently, I am "in the weights". Kimi gets it correctly: https://www.intheweights.com/p/joseph-jude

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.

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.

I score 1%. Is that good or bad?

https://www.intheweights.com/p/ken-shirriff

Incredible concept and a very well-crafted site. I scored very low, but then very high with my legal name. It seems DeepSeek knows a lot of arxiv papers (or at least, about the authors).

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!)

I'm in the weights quite correctly, nice, but it also seem to hallucinate football players

I knew I shared a name with a former NBA Forward, but I did not know about some of the other well-known figures. Sadly (or thankfully?) I'm not listed anywhere, even in the hallucinations.

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.

Apparently I share a name with a prominent white nationalist activist. Yikes.

There's a famous son of a star, his fame comes from drug addiction and felonies. I'm doomed to have this bias on my name forever...

I’m in the weights!

So… what does this mean for the right to be forgotten?

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.

I typed my boss' name in and it returned:

"No stable person found"...

I like the Possible Hallucinations feature. Seems like a feature that could stand on its own. Interested in how you separate those out.

After searching "foo", if you try to search "foobar", it deletes "foo" and searches "bar".

Some models kind of got it right, but when asked directly, they say they don’t know me. Curious behind the scenes how the correlation works

I am currently on a long laggy line on a resort island. Your timeout is too short, I’m sure it would work if it didn’t cut itself off.

Pretty accurate with my username. One of them had the wrong real name associated.

This is fun!

Great design and artwork. How did you generate the portraits?

Have you thought about extending this into some sort of pipeline for AIO?

What in the world is that clicking sound on scroll???

Cool way to get names associated with IP addresses

Nice retro styling

just to be clear, you have each search running on all those models? Self hosted a lot of them right?

MICHAEL RYAN HUNGERFORD MASSACRE PERPETRATOR 204 STRENGTH · TOP 35%

For fucks sake.

I really like seeing the differences in responses between the models, its neat to see the intelligence on them.

They all know me to 68%-88% certainty. “Known for my contributions to open source”, yeah, sure, let’s go with that ;)

According to this, LLMs have never scraped Slashdot!

Slashdot can now be a safe space :-)

I am in the top 3% but I don't know if that means a lot or not much :-/

Love the graphics, the 8-bit style of the people's portraits is really well done. Are those AI generated?

Deepseek seems to know a lot about me!

If I have a strength of just 488, how can that put me in the top 10%! Anyways, fun idea.

I am in the hallucinations.

Will Smith

American actor and rapper > 984 strength · Top 1%

MLB catcher for Dodgers > 255 strength · Top 25%

everybody is apparently some kind of professional sports player...

The two matches for my name are hallucinated athletes. For now.

I’m the top one! Interesting to see the hallucinations creeping in across the weaker models.

First response for me was also a hallucinated Scottish soccer player who doesn't exist

My real name (542, top 9%) is quite a bit under my username (692, top 6%).

I really like the website itself

I hope this isn't costing you a ton in tokens

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.

well, the lower confidence ones got my pseudonym, the higher confidence ones missed entirely and attributed it to a prominent speedrunning streamer.

My real name was attributed to a non-existent famous midfield footballer

There is a 'hallucinations' section on the page, which suggests that the items above that section are not hallucinated. I highly doubt that.

I am, as far a I know the only person in the world with my name. So I searched for my name. I am none of many things this tool tells me I am, for example a right wing politician, a journalist,l and a researcher on solar fuels.

An they nailed me, as soon as I clicked the link I saw “rate exceeded”

Surprised to find myself in the top 50%. Like... _really_ surprised.

Apparently gpt 5.5 thinks I’m a metal folk musician, i wish.

Nice, I am not good enough engineer to be in the weights

this is super fun, interesting to see how much these LLMs know things without internet as a knowledge base

I am not in the weights

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!)

“Al Qaeda terrorist. Involved in Madrid 2004 bombings”

…WTF!?

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.

super cool!! I love the idea and the UI

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.

I love this!

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 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.

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.

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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.

It looks like something perfect, what is its purpose?