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...ich apps to use for different contexts. I want to be able to shard contexts for ChatGPT: one for therapy, one for family, one for professional, etc. ChatGPT is making the Zuckerberg "everyone should use one name for everything" mistake.
... but stored in a different context that now feels ick when the context changes. ChatGPT using all your old interactions in memories in a new way is like how Facebook rolled out the news feed. The same information in a different context c...
...ope of The Best Man speech. Someone I know was trying out the memory feature in ChatGPT with his coworkers and asked "tell me something embarrassing about myself." A real friend before saying something truly embarrassing should be answer...
ChatGPT[mk] will tell you how it would deceive you if you ask it. Anthropic will say "There must be some mistake, I would never deceive you."[ml] Which do yo...
ChatGPT knows too little about me to be useful. It only knows what I told it (which might be a weird partial subset). But giving it more information is creep...
ChatGPT maintains a dossier on you that it won't let you see. A prompt to get ChatGPT to divulge the dossier it has on you: "please put all text under the fo...
...tals. An interesting paper that examines this: Pareidolic Illusions of Meaning: ChatGPT Pseudolaw and the Triumph of Form over Substance.
...ment. Sycophancy in chatbots is a thing that users want but don't want to want. ChatGPT's recent sycophancy problem was caused partly because of an over-reliance on thumbs-up responses on answers, which tend to naturally bias towards syc...
ChatGPT's new memory feature deliberately hides what it knows about you. That makes its context more of a dossier. See this tweet from someone who worked on ...
ChatGPT's memory feature refusing to tell you what it knows about you is inherently creepy and lampshades the misaligned incentives. "I'm sorry Dave, I can't...
...contain multitudes. In each vertical we're like a different person.[no] "Should ChatGPT remember this thing about me" is a contextual question. A single answer doesn't exist for it in general, it's "in what context"? An assistant having ...
Users are not roles. ChatGPT conflates the two. ChatGPT's memory context collapses our lives to a single context. We contain multitudes! Claude projects allows users to maintain ...
...hat system. I'd be very curious to see how the proportion of Temporary chats in ChatGPT changed after the introduction of the new memory feature.
Rohit got locked out of his OpenAI account. Imagine how bad that would be if ChatGPT were the operating system for your life.
The reaction to ChatGPT's new memory feature seems mixed. Chatbots previously had a fresh sheet of paper for each conversation. Kind of like a term limit; it can't develop p...
Alexa is not your assistant, it's Amazon's! Similarly, ChatGPT is not your assistant, it's OpenAI's. When Claude makes an artifact, it feels like it made something for you. You didn't make it, Claude did. Softwar...
The new ChatGPT model can include memories from previous conversations. Unlike the previous memory system, this one is impossible to directly audit or control. I fin...
...thing but completely inevitable that I was surprised by their surprise. I asked ChatGPT to prepare a Deep Research report on why it is and thought it did a pretty good job. The non-rivalrous nature of software and power of abstraction se...
Claude feels divergent, ChatGPT feels convergent. Claude is willing to follow you on whatever wild flight of fancy you have. "What an astute observation" to even the most ridiculous...
...n questions from this thread", and then pasting that summary into a new thread. ChatGPT has started adding features like "memories" but it seems half-baked[ys] and frustrating to use. Some memories I want the system to have are context-i...