OpenAI has been working on improving ChatGPT’s memory since 2023 when the company began testing custom instructions, a feature that allows users to set preferences that ChatGPT will consider in future conversations. The next time you conclude a conversation with ChatGPT, it will save what you said to memory, even if you don’t ask it explicitly to do so. For example, you can tell the chat bot you have a family of four, and it will remember that detail when you ask for it dinner recipes. At the start of last year, OpenAI began allowing users to tell ChatGPT to remember specific details from chats. With this latest update, ChatGPT will remember both you tell it to and insights it gleans from your conversations. Do you think that this is a way of controlling how people think and manipulate them ?

