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ChatGPT Gets Better at Remembering Info About You With Memory Improvements

I could’ve swore this was a thing a long time ago? Then at some point it seemed like it stopped working as I couldn’t get it to remember anything anymore. So now it’s back to working? Kinda irritated that I deleted a bunch of old conversations that would be handy for it to reference.
 
I see the value in having remembered contextualization, but I’m not sure I trust the company. I’d rather self host something like this given it could make a robust profile on a person.
 
Does this work across all ChatGPT models? Or is it only limited to the o4 model? I noticed for example, the o3-mini model does not support memory feature.
 
Memories are great when YOU decide what they are. For example "when you code for iOS, use SwiftUI and always use the MVVM architecture".

But when ChatGPT "learns" something about you automatically, this is definitely a privacy risk.
 
What's more trustworthy and AI system of a human being?
We tell stuff to friends/family/strangers constantly without a second thought.
As we all know a Human being is the most devious, untrustworthy animal on the planet. ;)
 
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I much prefer Apple Intelligence and its privacy-preserving features. Not only does it forget all my information, it usually forgets my questions before answering them. That's Apple Privacy.
 
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Good to see that there is an option to turn it off. Expecting the free tier users to have access in the coming weeks.
 
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Apple should implement a variant that absolutely guarantees privacy without sacrificing anything, by default.

For starters, developers should be given a model that has been extensively trained on swift and swiftui. I mean: seriously good. Such that documentation and API lookups are of the past: just ask and get meaningful answers, fully in context with the project you are working on. The AI should know your entire project, but.... absolutely guarantee that the code it sees remains 100% private. The intellectual property of software work on, and depend on for a living if they are indie developers, should come with an absolute guarantee from Apple. No excuses, no small print. No "you can only do this if you you enable the option to share whatever".

However, looking at Siri, I doubt they can make a better AI than ChatGPT et al. They probably come with a fancy demo that says "Hello world", but is utterly useless otherwise.

Let's hope the genius techies win from the commercial bling-bling boys and girls at Apple.
 
vantelimus said:
ChatGPT has had the ability to add things for it to memorize for a while. Expanding that feature would be a good thing. However, I often use temporary chats specifically to avoid things being remembered. If I ask ChatGPT some random question that only has relevance in the moment (e.g., "What is the capital of North Dakota?"), I don't want it thinking it should always find the Bismarck angle on how to answer my questions.

Another change I have noticed in ChatGPT, a few days back a new ChatBot appeared in my sidebar. It says it is an experiment by ChatGPT to give bots more personality. They want to see if that changes the way users interact with ChatGPT. The particular personality it put in this bot is a smart ass. It started out being personally insulting, which was funny, but quickly got old. I told it to tone down the personal insults. Now it is like a sarcastic smart aleck. I find this new bot more engaging to interact with unless I am in a serious, get-work-done mode.
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I told it to only remember things I want it to remember which is extreme but it's where I am starting from.

I tried to get it remember non-facts and it wouldn't which was expected. It will remember most designations for public figures, itself, or yourself that you want.
 
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DoogH said:
Honestly, people may be upset about this... But an AI that cannot remember anything is just DRASTICALLY less useful than one that can.

You can choose to not trust the data it is storing, but if they don't actually delete saved conversations when you request, they can be held massively liable by both California and EU privacy laws.
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theyve already shown that they dont care about laws. they'll scrape and train their data on anything, copyright is a joke to them unless their technology is the one being copied. this is an AI arms race and they will use China as an excuse to break every law imaginable to achieve AGI.
 
jz0309 said:
storing more personal information - way to go!
At least there's a toggle, let's hope it actually works
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It’s always stored all your past conversations until you delete them. Or you’ve always had the option to have “temporary chat” and it won’t store it in the first place.

The only thing that’s changed now is that when you’re chatting it can actually access those conversations in a meaningful way and, as others have said, this is far more useful than before. The ability for it to know what you’re talking about today based on what you discussed with it yesterday or last week or last year is a huge improvement.

If you have concerns about privacy, delete your conversations or have only temporary ones. If you don’t believe they’re actually being deleted, that has nothing to do with this new feature where it now simply makes better use, for you, of what was already there.
 
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Detnator said:
It’s always stored all your past conversations until you delete them. Or you’ve always had the option to have “temporary chat” and it won’t store it in the first place.

The only thing that’s changed now is that when you’re chatting it can actually access those conversations in a meaningful way and, as others have said, this is far more useful than before. The ability for it to know what you’re talking about today based on what you discussed with it yesterday or last week or last year is a huge improvement.

If you have concerns about privacy, delete your conversations or have only temporary ones. If you don’t believe they’re actually being deleted, that has nothing to do with this new feature where it now simply makes better use, for you, of what was already there.
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Thank You, appreciate your response and explanation!
 
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