In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
A new website called 'In the Weights' measures how well various AI models can recall specific individuals without using external web search. The tool assigns a 'strength score' based on how deeply a person's information is embedded within an AI's training parameters.
Why it matters
This tool offers a unique way to visualize the 'knowledge' and biases inherent in large language models, reflecting how AI is becoming a new source of digital identity.
Anyone who’s Googled themselves recently knows that it doesn’t quite hit the way it used to. Sure, there’s everything going on with Google search itself , but there’s also an inescapable feeling that web search isn’t the canonical source of information that it used to be, with just as many people learning about you and me from chatbots.
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