ChatGPT Remembers Everything About You—Here’s How to Stay in Control
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Summary
ChatGPT’s memory update means it remembers conversations, even reusing information from previous chats.
This creates a potential problem as ChatGPT, unlike a human, won’t forget unless told to do so - and simply archiving or deleting chats doesn’t stop it from remembering them.
However, there are several ways to control this memory function:
Archiving and deleting chats merely hides them and doesn’t stop ChatGPT from remembering them.
Project workspaces can keep work separate, but memories still leak between them.
Temporary chats are akin to Incognito mode; neither you nor ChatGPT can retain a memory of the conversation, and once the chat is closed, it’s gone.
The most effective way to ensure ChatGPT doesn’t remember anything is to disable the memory altogether, although this is only a speed bump given that a complete wipe is easily done.
Using ChatGPT anonymously or through a third-party wrapper also prevents memory retention.
