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1. No way in heaven or earth I'm using my real name with this. 2. Alfred E. Neuman https://www.intheweights.com/p/alfred-e~2e~-neuman > is either "Mad magazine mascot" (11 responses), or "German-American writer, novelist, and playwright" (1 response, from Llama 3.2 1B, classed as a hallucination). Maybe the odd one out means the German writer Alfred Neumann? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Neumann_(writer) > 3.…
Bahaha apparently only in their hallucinations. I’m not a professional rugby player or a neurologist.
We need a name for these pure hallucinations, something like lucies or looseys Usually the hallucinations have some logic to them like a person with a similar spelling in some of the training sets. LLMs are mysterious!
I wonder how much of hallucinating/"mistakes" in LLMs is because the training data is full of us filling in additional info we humans commonly feel or interpret as implied rather than something which manifests from the architecture of the LLM itself. I assume only a small percentage, but also a non-zero one.
Hah. My chosen name collision with my online handle makes the models consistent. They all are certain that I am an adhesives manufacturer. (Good!) On the other hand, the tool did make an assessment of sorts: NO STABLE PERSON FOUND.
I score 1%. Is that good or bad? https://www.intheweights.com/p/ken-shirriff
1. No way in heaven or earth I'm using my real name with this. 2. Alfred E. Neuman https://www.intheweights.com/p/alfred-e~2e~-neuman > is either "Mad magazine mascot" (11 responses), or "German-American writer, novelist, and playwright" (1 response, from Llama 3.2 1B, classed as a hallucination). Maybe the odd one out means the German writer Alfred Neumann? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Neumann_(writer) > 3.…
Yeah, that went about as well as I would have expected. It dug up a bunch of what can only be my information, then made up a bunch of confidently wrong things to say about me. I'm a Software Engineer and SaaS guy, known for running the company "[random word from my blog] Software" and his [different word from my blog] Blog. Founder of three separate startups I've never heard of and may not exist, and well known contr…
I am neither.
LLAMA 3.2 1B SAYS
MCFART IS A POPULAR INTERNET PERSONALITY KNOWN FOR HIS HUMOROUS CONTENT.
wow how does it konw
Apparently according to Gemini, I, the only person in the world with my name (unique first name + long complex last name) am a professional soccer player. Yeah, be careful with answers you get from AIs.
I'm apparently a former professional soccer player too, but I can't find my alter-ego anywhere using the classic search engines. Interestingly, the only other person with my (very french) first name and (very spanish) surname is also a software engineer, but in Côte d'Ivoire. What were the odds?
Only Grok did well kinda...
> Grok 4.20 says >Dutch software developer and Usenet poster known for eccentric claims about perpetual motion machines and pseudoscience.
Yes, I guess I'm that guy.
Few things are as funny as putting a working device in front of people and see them continue to assert it doesn't work.
It took Howard Johnson, who holds academic credentials in chemistry and physics, nearly six years of legal challenges to finally secure his patent.
After presenting undeniable, physical proof that the device worked and produced continuous motion without an external power source, the presiding judge ordered the USPTO to grant the patent.
More interestingly, after such a long circus the patent could no longer be groped for so called national security purposes.
And most interestingly, there was no academic or industrial interest in the technology.
It reads like a global iq test and it turns out we are really dumb.
Yeah, that went about as well as I would have expected. It dug up a bunch of what can only be my information, then made up a bunch of confidently wrong things to say about me. I'm a Software Engineer and SaaS guy, known for running the company "[random word from my blog] Software" and his [different word from my blog] Blog. Founder of three separate startups I've never heard of and may not exist, and well known contr…
The only difference with an LLM is that it won't say "maybe".