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 there is available online by or about the person.
Anyway, give it a try. Are you In The Weights?
P.S. A number of other “Peter Coles” characters are also listed under my entry, some of them as far as I can see totally fictitious.
In the Dark 
June 22, 2026 at 12:16 pm
I don’t appear at all – should I be offended or relieved? Mind you, there are 3 others with my name – a golfer, a rugby player, and an actor
June 22, 2026 at 12:18 pm
Evidently your absence is an hallucination.
June 22, 2026 at 12:38 pm
Peter!! Charlize Theron is a great actress, epic Ice Queen in Snow White and the Hunter! Cormac
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June 22, 2026 at 2:24 pm
So the person of whom I’ve never heard is in film I haven’t seen.
June 22, 2026 at 2:16 pm
Well that was interesting. I had a score of 111, and in top 55%. Surprised I was in it at all as I am not on any social media. However what was really interesting is that it said there is another Francis Keenan who is a professor of astrophysics at Leicester. A big surprise to me – so I looked at the Leicester website and no one with that name is listed……
June 22, 2026 at 2:20 pm
There are lots of hallucinations in the weights.
June 22, 2026 at 3:29 pm
@telescoper.blog I ran this on myself and confirmed – once again – that LLMs offer little more than the averaging of raw data across the internet, including wrong and biased information. I’ve never been an editor, and it missed the other 60% of my career, not to mention the rest of my fully online, nonprofessional life.
#stayhuman
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June 22, 2026 at 4:19 pm
@telescoper.blog I smell BS. Apparently I'm the co-founder of Unistellar now!
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June 22, 2026 at 5:01 pm
@hannorein Worked for me, but the results were different depending on searching with our without “Dr.” before my name. Without, it had one false bit of information (association with a blog of a former colleague), with it flagged 4 possible “hallucinations”, which were indeed wrong (or other people by the same name). @telescoper.blog
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June 22, 2026 at 7:10 pm
I show up as the real me and also as various people who don’t exist (an American football player, for instance).
June 22, 2026 at 9:48 pm
I also show up as an English cricketer who I’m sure doesn’t exist. The only cricketers I can find with the surname Coles are Matt and James.
June 23, 2026 at 12:20 pm
I’ve never seen a film with Charlize Theron in, but I remember her bowdlerised striptease ads for Dior.
June 23, 2026 at 3:17 pm
I thought had a remarkably good score but it was an American football player.