Are You in the Weights? “LLMs encode their knowledge and reasoning through billions of numbers called ‘the weights.’ ‘In the weights’ means that a model is able to recall someone without using tools like web search.”
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Because I have been ridiculously online for decades, I am definitely in the weights. The all-time leaderboard is worth a look as well.
I've also been very online for 20+ years, I am decidedly in these weights. There are some hallucinations in there though, such as Mistral 3.2 claiming I've worked with The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, and apparently conjuring a non-existent screen actor by the same name.
Pleased to announce that I am not in the weights 😊
Up until this comment of yours ;)
I'm not in the weights. I'd like to keep it that way.
Too late :)
I'm in the welterweights.
I'm not truly in the weights in any significant way, it came up with about 5 different identities for my name, with only one making any sense at all. Most appear to be tied to my sharing a last name with a city in Minnesota, and any Jareds from that town that have done anything were attributed to me by the LLMs.
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