In the Weights: Former OpenAI Staff Build AI Vanity Search Measuring How Well Models Remember You
Tags AI · Consumer
Former OpenAI employees Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn built In the Weights, a website that queries multiple AI models (Grok, Gemini, GPT, Claude, Llama) to measure how well each model 'remembers' a person without web search, assigning a 'strength score.' The tool went viral, with users comparing scores on social media. TechCrunch's Anthony Ha scored 641 (top 6% of names), while the leaderboard is topped by Macaulay Culkin and Luciano Pavarotti (988 each). The creators say Google vanity searches are 'the wrong objective in 2026 as more traffic moves to LLMs.'
Technical significance
Beyond its viral appeal, In the Weights highlights a real concern: AI models encode information about individuals in their weights, and this information is not easily removable. As LLMs increasingly mediate access to information about people, the question of how to measure and potentially control one's 'AI footprint' becomes more pressing from both privacy and reputation management perspectives.