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Re: Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

#161

This is a clever trick to get you to enter your real name. ;-) I entered mine, I was on the page kind of, there was some kind of exaggeration of me as the last one. I was surprised someone else in my family who is a kind of actual famous person was not found. It seems to have a lot of recency bias based on that.

My user name here is in the weights. My real name isn't on the Internet.

Oddly, I'm listed only as a stack-exchange contributor, which was really brief compared to hn but its adjacent enough the relations might run together.

Re: Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

#164

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.

Yeah, I’m an actor who has been in game of thrones and the Alien franchise, apparently - but no such actor exists. There are only three findable folks with my name - one’s a felon, one’s been dead a couple years, one’s me.

Oh and sometimes I’m a dog food brand. Go figure.

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#166
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 contributor to Open Source (because that's something that software people often do, so it makes for pretty words to put into a paragraph, despite me not contributing to open source).

Overall, it's like watching a really bad sight reader doing his act. It suggests something that's likely true about you given your background, then keeps tweaking those suggestions until you go "yeah, that's it! you nailed me!".

Sadly, this is pretty par for the course watching AI try to do stuff.

Re: Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

#168
According to Kimi, I'm a Dutch robotics engineer. Got that part actually right! Not so much for the rest, about First Lego League. But I did RoboCup, so close enough I guess.

The other models think I'm Dutch (I guess the 'van' gives that away?) and am a soccer/football player. I don't know anything about soccer though

Re: Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

#169

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, also with an internationally unique name, am a Canadian entrepreneur and a professional rugby player.

Re: Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

#170

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, also with an internationally unique name, am a Canadian entrepreneur and a professional rugby player.

I’m wondering if there is a way to use this as proof for my soccer player salary, endorsement deals, etc.
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