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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
by noname120 10mo ago
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.
- onraglanroad 10mo agoThat seems like a terrible default. Unless they have a weighting system for different parts of context?
- eru 10mo agoThey do (or at least they have something that behaves like weighting).
- redhed 10mo agoThis 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.
- gordonhart 10mo ago> 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.
- redhed 10mo agoI 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.
- tiahura 10mo agoIt’s not that it brings it up in unrelated conversations, it’s that it nudges related conversations in unwanted directions.
- astrange 10mo agoMostly 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.
- 0xdeafbeef 10mo agoOnly your questions are in it though
- noname120 10mo agoAre you sure? What makes you think so?
- 0xdeafbeef 10mo agohttps://www.shloked.com/writing/chatgpt-memory-bitter-lesson https://www.shloked.com/writing/chatgpt-memory-bitter-lesson Mb something 've changed since post