I don't like ChatGPT's new memory dossier

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/chatgpt-new-memory/

by ingve • 1 year ago

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byoung22• 1 year ago

I've been impressed with the memory feature, but I do see how it could be dangerous, especially if you use it for hobby projects and serious projects. For work, I use ChatGPT to generate my weekly status reports for work, and that will come in handy when doing my annual review or updating my resume. But I would not want that context to spill over into a personal project

threecheese• 1 year ago

Or a previous conversation about sexuality - mentioned in your status report. This leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Sami_Lehtinen• 1 year ago

Of course you're using different accounts for personal versus work use?

byoung22• 1 year ago

My status reports are pretty benign and I keep it generic: "solved a P2 relating to Java GC by allocating more memory" or "created a powerpoint slide deck outlining the benefits of on-prem versus adobe cloud for AEM". Not worth creating a new account.

danpalmer• 1 year ago

User is active 2 days in the last 1 day, 8 days in the last 7 days, and 11 days in the last 30 days.

Timezones are tricky, but they're not that hard. This is just bad engineering.

bredren• 1 year ago

The per project memory is a huge miss right now.

I can only presume the global behavior so far is some architectural limitation.

I don't like ChatGPT's new memory dossier

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