Are You in The Weights?

Yesterday I found out about a site called intheweights.com , which reveals which people are “stored” in the weights of large language models. Those “weights” are billions of numerical values by which these AI models encode their knowledge. If you show up in them, the model considered you relevant enough during training to recall without tools such as web search. The site queries several models to figure out who a specific person is, combines the results, and assigns a strength score. According to the leaderboard, the current maximum strength score is 998, awarded too a person called Charlize Theron (of whom I have never heard); number Two is Rudyard Kipling, apparently. I’m surprised the top isn’t Taylor Swift. I guess these weights change with time too. Being a vain person I typed in my name and found this: The only reason I can think of that I score so highly is all that scraping of this blog site over the last year or so. The weights are obviously influenced by how much material…