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Problem is that by default ChatGPT has the “Reference chat history” option enabled in the Memory options. This causes any previous conversation to leak into the current one. Just creating a new conversation is not enough, you also need to disable that option.




Only your questions are in it though

Are you sure? What makes you think so?

This is also the default in Gemini pretty sure, at least I remember turning it off. Make's no sense to me why this is the default.

> Makes no sense to me why this is the default.

You’re probably pretty far from the average user, who thinks “AI is so dumb” because it doesn’t remember what you told it yesterday.


I was thinking more people would be annoyed by it bringing up unrelated conversations, thinking more I'd say you're probably right that more people are expecting it to remember everything they say.

It’s not that it brings it up in unrelated conversations, it’s that it nudges related conversations in unwanted directions.

Mostly because they built the feature and so that implicitly means they think it's cool.

I recommend turning it off because it makes the models way more sycophantic and can drive them (or you) insane.


That seems like a terrible default. Unless they have a weighting system for different parts of context?

They do (or at least they have something that behaves like weighting).



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