In the Weights lets you check if AI chatbots remember you
Former OpenAI designers Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn launched In the Weights, a website that queries multiple AI models to measure how well they recall a person without using web search. The site queries models including Grok, Gemini, GPT versions, Claude, Llama, and lesser-known ones, asking "Who is <name>?" and clustering similar descriptions into a strength score. Macaulay Culkin currently tops the leaderboard with a score of 988, tied with Luciano Pavarotti. Dimson said the project was inspired by the feeling that Google vanity searches are outdated as traffic moves to LLMs, and by a blog post riffing on AI weights and Terry Bisson's story "They're Made Out of Meat." The site features a Nintendo-inspired retro design and highlights potential hallucinations, such as GPT-5.4 Mini describing Anthony Ha as an ambiguous name. Dimson plans to explore why different models return different results and which people should have Wikipedia articles but don't.
Key facts
- In the Weights queries AI models to measure recall of a person without web search.
- Created by Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn, both former OpenAI designers.
- Models queried include Grok, Gemini, GPT versions, Claude, Llama, and others.
- Results are clustered into a strength score and leaderboard.
- Macaulay Culkin and Luciano Pavarotti share the top score of 988.
- Site highlights hallucinations, e.g., GPT-5.4 Mini on Anthony Ha.
- Dimson cites Google vanity searches as outdated for 2026.
- Design is Nintendo-inspired retro.
- Dimson plans further analysis on model biases and missing Wikipedia articles.
Entities
Artists
- Macaulay Culkin
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Anthony Ha
- Anthony Moser
- Terry Bisson
Institutions
- OpenAI
- Global Illumination
- TechCrunch