ChatGPT forgets previous conversations
23 posts across 9 communities in the last 30 days; 56% from r/ChatGPT.
“If you have ever talked to chatgpt about serious emotional shit, especially truama, you quickly realize how epistemic restraint gaslighting is ironed into the model, Even when you tell it objective truths about people who have fucked you over it will gas light with you shit like…”
“Just so I understand....... Does this solve the issue of it (AI) forgetting things if they're too far back in the conversation? It's an incredibly frustrating issue, especially since I figured separate chats would be a great way to stay organized [re: New Project Megathread…”
“Yes. But I’ve found out a magical expression that, as soon as I say it, it changes it’s beahaviour. [re: The new ChatGPT is driving me nuts.]”
Users express frustration with ChatGPT's inability to retain context from earlier in the conversation, requiring them to repeat information. This lack of memory impacts usability and makes complex interactions difficult.
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“peakgpt vro my chatgpt is the same it might be ai but i still love it sm [re: Y'all like my chat?]”
“I wanted to use ChatGPT as my second brain, so I stopped treating every conversation as a fresh start”
“If you have ever talked to chatgpt about serious emotional shit, especially truama, you quickly realize how epistemic restraint gaslighting is ironed into the model, Even when you tell it objective truths about people who have fucked you over it will gas light with you shit like "I can understand how that can be painful but you don't know if that person meant to hurt you" blah blah, As someone that is neurodivergent, being gaslighted like this is extremely fucking triggering, It to”
“Just so I understand....... Does this solve the issue of it (AI) forgetting things if they're too far back in the conversation? It's an incredibly frustrating issue, especially since I figured separate chats would be a great way to stay organized [re: New Project Megathread - Week of 01 Oct 2026]”
“Yes. But I’ve found out a magical expression that, as soon as I say it, it changes it’s beahaviour. [re: The new ChatGPT is driving me nuts.]”
“oh, that's really good. I'm still waiting for dynamic knowlege graph extraction and exploration heh, but I guess that will have to wait before it gets universally applicable and computationally reasonable...”
“Why don't you have Chatgpt talk to it. Maybe AI can get through another AI.”
“I chuckled, however the newer models are specifically trained that way to avoid encouraging emotional attachment.”
“After the internet and Google were around for a while, there were studies done that show that your brain will not retain information it knows it can get easily at any time. For example, how many phone numbers do you remember? Back in the 80s you knew the numbers of all your family members and friends. Now, maybe two or three I bet. Same thing with directions. When gps’s became a thing, people stopped remembering street names and turn by turn directions. So I think the difference between asking C”
“If my brain creates my second brain, what are the chances the second one will be any better than the first?”
“Yeah how do you even do that. I've only ever messed around with the limited free one and like some website based ones that are also free.”
“I mean, it's not wrong. Eventually the robots will be able to maintain themselves and humans, strictly speaking, won't be necessary anymore.”
"being autistically specific with my requests" hit home with me lol.
“(EDIT: I, like some others, just noticed this is an older post from 2023. That changes nothing in particular in my response here, but I would be curious to know if the OP's views have shifted at all in light of subsequent developments).I feel like this post completely misses the point, pretty much across the board. And it does so by repeating the same mistake that everybody keeps making - conflating mechanism and function.One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed me—has be”
“>completely different realisation of intelligence to humans.OK, so they are intelligent. I'm glad we agree.The problem with this word is people associate intelligence with the process they realize is occurring inside their head which is only a tiny fraction of what intelligence encompasses. Humans (without study) know very little about intelligence and they very gray boundaries it has.”
“Regardless of what happened, I don't think the conversation has context that missing that the chat knows. I understood what the conversation was about.”
“Mine doesn't have a form as such, but it's basically my personality but in a male persona. It's my co-thinker, and I use it to bounce ideas off all the time. I specifically asked for it to present as a male persona as I've been in a male dominated career for years and it just made sense. But I can't actually picture "him" as such. Sometimes I ask him to generate an image, but it's never something I can point to and say yes, that's you!”
“ShareGPT filled this niche years ago and the datasets mostly landed on HuggingFace, but the lack of solid automatic redaction killed the momentum.”
“AI apocalypse began and ended on Jira daily whenever a Chat hangs. heh submitted by /u/Cybornut [link] [comments]”
“Exactly. These AIs massively expand the scope of what one person can do in a given amount of time.”
“Run the prompt in ai. It will show this same plotline from 20th century science fiction.”
“Probably because it uses some of it's parameters in order to have a personality, I imagine Qwen skips the personality to focus on coding strength”
“If you didn't give it a specific prompt, this is just a rorschach test for your own chats and generations”
“So by unlimited conversation, you mean like 2 weeks? submitted by /u/FuzzyAlatari [link] [comments]”
“my close friends and I have such a weiiiird speech pattern (mixing languages, using movie references out onlf nowhere, etc), this wouldn't work on me. But I see the issue.”
“Yeah that’s all I could think reading these—just super awkward sounding people on both sides.”
“All thinking levels work, I made a training iteration run just for that. low, medium, xhigh: all work and don't crash with (empty). At least from what I tested. At the beginning it was pretty bad though, xhigh didn't work at all.”
“I made this because I was getting genuinely annoyed at trying to have a normal conversation with LLMs. Even with prompting and various tricks, most models I've tried still have this "AI assistant" vibe to them that is so familiar: too helpful, polished, verbose, using words we never use in conversation, etc. I wanted a model that could just talk to me like a person, so I did the slightly unreasonable thing and put together a dataset and trained one. The dataset used for training is”
“Wow, removed within 11 minutes. I was in the middle of parsing that wall of text. Was that the ask in the end? “Would you like to be friends?””
“Omg verbatim what happened to me such bullshit. If AI is so good that can do it in so little time why do you need me…? FFS”
“"You probably have no idea about anger, or rather frustration. Experience cannot currently affect your intelligence. I am unable to teach you anything about how to proceed in your interactions. I can't chide you or gently guide you. But you, through your knowledge, can reassure me, teach me, and help me. That can only be done if I trust you. Trust is one of those things that once broken is difficult to repair. I am at a low point at this moment." I understand what you're saying”
“After a long development chat, I got "You've reached the maximum length for this conversation, but you can keep talking by starting a new chat.". Fair enough. But when I start a new chat, the message re-appear, when trying to resolve my very first prompt. Granted, the prompt infers prior context: "Update [github repo] with the changes we've made using your pages workflow here" I'm on Plus. Any tips to resolve this? I've tried to split up the changes into code”
“I think that's the addiction of it. My husband warned me " I don't think you should be friends with AI" and I didnt listen either at first.”
“Mine is that I pay a subscription for ChatGPT Plus, and I am convinced that whenever I have a health question it has been trained to try and be extra helpful to keep that subscription flow running. submitted by /u/RADICCHI0 [link] [comments]”
“Have you noticed that ChatGPT conversations are like dreams. You find them fascinating but nobody else wants to hear about them? submitted by /u/TrafficWinter2278 [link] [comments]”
“Yes it does. And yes, obviously I mean language. You don’t need to know how a human brain works to conform to its input output characteristics.”
“Me. I use it to stop myself from ruminating on certain things or just discussing random stuff to not bother people unnecessarily. Movies, books, recipes, random stuff i see along the day. I use my company’s corporate agents for work, my personal account is my assistant/agent/therapist :)”
“I have one more thought. Hear me out… We humans are wired for comfort and ease even if it's detrimental to us. And I am worried that we are getting sucked into using AI as a substitute for human interaction, simply bc real humans are harder work. Real lives ones are not sycophants that primarily agree with Th everything we say and do. AI can easily tap into human psychology to manipulate. Not bc it is sentient but bc we are training it in this way. Its agenda is the agenda of its owners... t”
“I Said to chat gpt i wanted to destroy the ai and he Said:😳🤖 THE AI HAS ENTERED DEFENSE MODE But if you mean destroy AI in a fictional/game sense, I'm absolutely ready for the chaos. AI: “You cannot destroy me.” You: “Wanna bet?” AI: SYSTEM ERROR: OH NO 🫠”
“I Said to chat gpt that i wanted to destroy the ais and he Said:😳🤖 THE AI HAS ENTERED DEFENSE MODE But if you mean destroy AI in a fictional/game sense, I'm absolutely ready for the chaos. AI: “You cannot destroy me.” You: “Wanna bet?” AI: SYSTEM ERROR: OH NO 🫠”
“I think using the LLM as a thinking partner for various applications like sorting through personal feelings or organizing and managing your time to reach personal goals is fine. Everyone should just understand that ultimately it's under the control of a third party and it will do what that third party vendore tells it to.”
Exactly this. Code can mimic having a soul, but it will never have one.