Anyone who has searched on Google recently knows that it’s not as good as it used to be. Sure, there’s everything going on with Google Search itself, but there’s also the inescapable feeling that web search is no longer the primary source of information it once was, with more people learning about you and me from chatbots.
Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn had a similar feeling, which drove them to create In weights. The “weights” in question are the numerical parameters that make up the training and output of the AI model, and thus the website Allegedly To measure how well a model can remember a person without using tools like web search.
“Your presence in the weights means that your presence was important in the process of creating superhuman artificial intelligence,” the site says.
To achieve this, In the Weights is supposed to query various models (including Grok, Gemini, multiple versions of GPT, Claude, and Llama, as well as lesser-known models) with a question similar to “Who is he?”
For example, This humble technology blogger I had a power score of 641, which put me in the top 6% of names. I was feeling good until I saw it numerous TechCrunch peers And scored higher. and Leaderboards The situation has changed as I write this article, with “Home Alone” star Macaulay Culkin currently in first place with 988 points, followed by opera singer Luciano Pavarotti.
The results also show which models returned answers for a particular name, and highlight possible hallucinations – GPT-5.4 Mini appears to say that Anthony Ha is a “vague name model that can refer to multiple people with the initials AHA.”
When asked why he built In the Weights, Dimson told TechCrunch via email that he and Flynn were looking to “get the creative juices flowing again” after leaving OpenAI (which they joined through the acquisition of design startup Global Illumination).
Dimson said he was thinking that “trivial Google searches will be the wrong target in 2026 as more traffic moves to MBAs” and the fact that “a lot of lives are somehow encoded in a bunch of floating point numbers inside an AI brain.” He also said the direction of the site is “sealed”. Sarcastic blog post He enjoys the genres of AI and the classic short story by Terry Besson “It’s made of meat.“
“The reception has been crazy so far, and we thought this would be simple curiosity, but it seems to have struck a chord of wanting to know if you live forever in superintelligence (the comparison factor doesn’t hurt either!),” Dimson added.
While I’m not convinced that chatbots “remembering” you is a guaranteed ticket to immortality, I can’t deny that I find the results interesting and envy-inducing, especially since they’re codified into an easy-to-comparable score. (Amnesty International critic Anthony Moser He mocked (That this is “literally like asking 13 chatbots to tell you about yourself.”) Also helps: the fact that the site has a nice, Inspired by Nintendo Retro design.
Dimson said he plans to dig deeper into why different models in the same series give different results, which models are biased toward different types of people, and which people “should have a Wikipedia article but don’t.”
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