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Post by technothrasher »

esperent wrote: post #226
amdivia wrote: post #225

The.. false positives are extremely scary (not listed as hallucinations) A terrorist on the US saction list.. the first female airplane suicide bomber?? I was in the US a year ago and I did not bomb any planes I think with Arabic names it's highly biased, which is kind of scary, I don't want to be bombed based on an LLM query

Apparently I'm either a child voice actor on the cartoon Bluey or an adult film actor. Those were the most interesting anyway. But all of them were hallucinations. The most interesting thing about this, IMO is that none of the models could simply say that they didn't recognize the name.

I was told I had a roll on "The Walking Dead". Interesting that it decided I was an actor, but didn't list the one adult film that somebody with my name was actually in.

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Post by technothrasher »

narag wrote: post #202

LOL, I'm a TV actor, a Real Madrid football player, a musician and a pro photographer. Fortunately, my real life namesake, a gay porn performer, didn't register though. Short career span I guess.

I also have a gay porn doppelganger who didn't show up. Must be a conspiracy against gay porn.

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Post by cozzyd »

It identified me reasonably well (mostly one of the models completely hit the experiments I work on wrong) but then also seems to have invented a football player I can find no trace of. Or would not be surprising if someone with my name was also a football player but I couldn't find easy evidence.

My wife has a very unique hyphenated last name and it totally made up a French linguist with that name.

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Post by dhosek »

turtlesoup wrote: post #94
dhosek wrote: post #92

So despite publishing a lot of fiction and poetry I’m apparently most well known for my contributions to the TeX, LaTeX and typography communities. It also thinks I’m a professional athlete having played professional baseball hockey and basketball.

Interesting, that probably reveals something about the training set for most of these models

I discovered on a later try that “D A HOSEK” gives different results than “D. A. HOSEK” with the latter actually surfacing my writing, although all the summaries are full of amusing hallucinations.

The weird thing was that putting my kids’ names in (they are 12 and have no on-line presence), the system hallucinated fictional versions of them that matched their interests (my daughter a singer/actor/artist, my son a software engineer). My ex-wife, who has a published computer book to her name, on the other hand, was hallucinated as four different activists in different areas of interest.

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Post by Cider9986 »

uberex wrote: post #205
Schlagbohrer wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you concerned about with entering your real name?

My guess name to browser fingerpint and IP map. But any Google auth login could do that.

Tor browser could work. Still not private, but it's anonymous.

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Post by jhbadger »

jasonkester wrote: post #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 contr…

It got me exactly right and also academics more famous than me that I tried. I think it is pretty bad if you are expecting it to know you from highly rated github repositories or whatever, but if you have a traditional journal and conference record it seems okay.

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Post by firefoxd »

inigyou wrote: post #98
foxfired wrote: post #60

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

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Just FYI, your ip address seems to be flagged as abusive on many services, you might want to check it out. Not sure if it's a VPN, but I've been getting a lot of spam POST requests from you, which is why I flagged it last month.
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