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1756, Salzburg, January 27th: Wolfgang Amadeus is born 1761: at the age of 5, Amadeus begins composing 1773: he writes his first piano concerto 1782: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constance Weber 1784: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart becomes a Freemason 1791: Mozart composes The Magic Flute On December 5th of that same year, Mozart dies

1985: Austrian rock singer Falco records Rock Me Amadeus!

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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…

Mine got me 100% wrong. I recognise some of the information as that of some people with the same surname as me though

I thought it would've just had the information from my linkedin

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post #134

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.…

I put my SS in there

Schutzstaffel?

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I’m a hallucination. None of these are me. Perhaps the closest is DeepSeek v4: > Hyperpape is a user on the LessWrong forum, known for thoughtful comments on rationality and philosophy. I studied philosophy, so maybe, except I don't post on LessWrong, and I'm not a rationalist. https://www.intheweights.com/p/hyperpape

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My handle and real name give more or less correct results with a 220-243 score (whatever that means). Gemini insists on me working in sound engineering, something I did in the 90s, but at least it's not completely absurd.

The most correct result comes from Opus 4.8, but is amusingly deemed an hallucination:

Claude Opus 4.8 says

A name associated with French IT/systems administration and Linux community discussions, possibly a storage and data systems specialist.

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6 Football (soccer) players share my name and I still am at the top. Type "SEO" and I'll DM you my one little weird trick. /jk Fun story about my name [0], the bank couldn't mail me my debit card because the mailman kept crossing my address off the envelop. [0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/sharing-a-name

Same with me, apparently three different models think I am a minor football player. Looking it up, I am not the first result for my full name, but there also is no minor football player with that name, so… Also have an extremely common name in Portugal (just in my company there are 4 people with my name, including my previous manager), only slightly helped by the fact that we’re one of the few countries that inherits…

> one of the few countries that inherits last names from both parents, which helps with differentiation.

Not sure I’d call basically every country in Latin America “few”

Re: Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why can't it draw Elvis and Hitler?

It is on a 10 minute interval and only does images for the top people, should pick up Elvis shortly. On refusal it shows an X for the person, sometimes the upstream model (gpt-5.4 image 2) will refuse and there are a few names I manually omitted.

Why refuse Adolf Hitler, but allow Vladimir Putin? I mean, it's not a race, but if you're going to draw a line in the sand (labelled 'no admittance to utter cockwombles' or something like that) I know where Putin would end up. Are those models refusing one and allowing the other? Why do they even refuse one?
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