Website “In the Weights” shows whether AI models know who you are

Two former OpenAI employees have built a website called “In the Weights” that reveals which people AI models can recall purely from their training data. A strength score of up to 996 shows how deeply a person is embedded, with Mozart, Shakespeare, and Taylor Swift topping the list.

If you show up in them, the model considered you relevant enough during training to recall without tools like web search. The site queries several models to figure out who a specific person is, combines the results, and assigns a strength score. My colleague Maximilian Schreiner and I currently have strength scores of 175 and 262, for example. According to the leaderboard, the maximum strength score is 996, reserved for names like Mozart, Shakespeare, or Taylor Swift. The site was built by Joey Flynn and Thomas Dimson, both former OpenAI employees. According to the creators, smaller models make it harder to show up in results. So anyone who appears in Meta’s Llama, which has a billion parameters, counts as highly relevant. The creators also flag the obvious limits of LLMs, like that models can hallucinate biographical details, typos drag down scores, and common names often produce worse results.AdDEC_D_Incontent-1 TopStories Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network out of goats in Age of Empires II to critique AI science Amazon and five other companies reportedly triggered the government crackdown on Anthropic’s Fable model KPMG fabricated AI case studies in a report designed to sell clients on AI adoption Microsoft’s Copilot Cowork moves to usage-based billing and may tap DeepSeek Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2 closes in on closed-source leaders in coding marathons Don’t MissWhat Matters Stay in the loop on AI. Clear, useful, no fluff. Follow The Decoder for AI news, background stories and expert analyses.