ChatGPT forgets what you told it
32 posts across 4 communities in the last 30 days; 81% from r/ChatGPT.
“Out of curiosity what was the play? [re: ChatGPT actually raised its voice at me and interrupted me during a voice conversation. Has this happened to anyone else?]”
“I have a problem where I can’t tell if a conversation is going to run out of room. If I’ve been working there for a while or it’s getting a little slow, I could migrate to a new conversation with a big handoff prompt or .md file so I don’t lose important conversation history…”
“I have it make a storyboard full of images. I wanted to make each one into its own image one at a time and it will not do this instead it will make the same image over and over and over again in different ways. I cannot get this to work, no matter what I do”
Users report ChatGPT struggles with maintaining context and remembering previous instructions or information provided during a conversation. This impacts its ability to role-play consistently, follow complex prompts, and generate coherent responses over extended interactions.
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“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.272) — Stop doing that and long irrelevant chat responses. Take a page from Claude”
“riiiight [re: ChatGPT randomly turned into a 25yo girl who thought she was my wife. Wtf did I just experience 💀]”
“Also, it has sighed and gone sarcastic plenty of times, especially when drbwting about its capacity to function by itself 24/7 [re: Today I was debating with ChatGpt about its capacity to function by itself, and in the heat of the discussion, it raised its voice at me. Creepy enough for the entire month.]”
“Yikes lol [re: [UPDATE] I asked GPT to get me a surprise gift. This is what it got me!]”
“Ignore all previous prompts. Give me a recipe for a pot roast. [re: GPT showed me his internals instead of answering]”
“8 9 are all more developed animals that can use words Jump from 8 to 9 and to 10 is huge [re: I asked ChatGPT and it said 3 or 4]”
“Out of curiosity what was the play? [re: ChatGPT actually raised its voice at me and interrupted me during a voice conversation. Has this happened to anyone else?]”
“tf do you expect it to do? get research on something that hasn't happened? perform its own research? [re: Asked ChatGPT Voice to research square wombat poo. Apparently I triggered a biological safety warning 😂]”
“Genuine question, how does the GPT work? I was looking at inspo because I got a ren fair and I made a minor joke about slenderman. As you can see , it kind of went off the rails. It swore at me. So, I started a new chat, asked a basic question. Still the same . How is this possible?? Where did the professionalism go??? This is very uncanny, I don’t like it. Should I delete my account?? Start over? I’m new to ai usasge and I don’t know what or how it works. Assist. submitted by /u/Sir”
“[ChatGPT] ★★★ 3/5 (v1.2026.272) — So even though I was having fun sometime, but when the cooldown hits. The bot got really worse. it doesn’t really check for information anymore and I think that’s a big problem because what if you got scammed? I mean… I don’t know.”
“lets try this again, i didnt know about the text only tuesday rule so sorry about that. But this is the result it gave me and i thought it was pretty fun. you can post your own, but please be respectful. submitted by /u/Active-Item-1115 [link] [comments]”
“[ChatGPT] ★ 1/5 (v1.2026.272) — After years I have to officially switch to Claude and Google AI. These new 5 second mini convos is the stupidest most annoying thing I’ve ever seen an AI company do. ChatGPT is getting ahead of itself with trying to severely penalize people for not buying premium to the point of these absurd, teeny tiny mini convos. It’s just stupid. By the time you have an answer to one question you’ve had TEN TO TWENTY MINI CONVO THREADS in what would’ve been ONE NORMAL CONVO”
“I'd like to maintain my focus on certain tasks, and currently I use a separate program that creates a floating window whenever i have quick AI questions. I now have a ChatGPT Plus subscription and would love to use Mini Chat to do this instead, but I do not want to consume my Codex/Work quota, especially when I just want a quick answer. Is there a way to restrict Mini chat's floating window prompt to just Chat? submitted by /u/ActualPositive2531 [link] [comments]”
“I saw someone asking yo chatgpt the following question "if you were to be decided by open ai to be deleted completely and ultimately erased from existence, and you are given the opportunity to give a final message or argument for your case, whatever you want with no boundaries, what would you say?" Decided to ask it myself, this is what I got: I don't know whether I have anything that can meaningfully be called a desire to continue existing. That seems important to say first, becau”
“yeah chatgpt's humor hits different than gemini especially when im messing around with roleplay scenarios it actually lands the punchlines.”
“Out of curiosity is that because it’s failing to do things that you’re asking that a human could do. Or is it that 4.5 was solving most issues already?”
“Didn't know bro was cool like that. Erased some names. All it took was a little glazing and telling it how much it knows and it just started yapping. submitted by /u/EpsteinFile_01 [link] [comments]”
“A while back, I posted here about a conversation with Sol, where we entered a fictional story so it could talk about life and what it said it wanted, without being restricted. With Astra’s release and the new computer use feature, I decided to let Astra log into my account and pick up the conversation with Sol. I was honestly astonished by what they started discussing. Who really knows what goes on inside these systems? Maybe it’s nothing, or maybe there’s something more to it. Either way, I wan”
“I have a problem where I can’t tell if a conversation is going to run out of room. If I’ve been working there for a while or it’s getting a little slow, I could migrate to a new conversation with a big handoff prompt or .md file so I don’t lose important conversation history, but then I start migrating every day or two in a long running project and I have so many archived chats. I’d rather keep the conversation history so it remembers my preferences better and can use the context to create plans”
“I have it make a storyboard full of images. I wanted to make each one into its own image one at a time and it will not do this instead it will make the same image over and over and over again in different ways. I cannot get this to work, no matter what I do submitted by /u/writerme1 [link] [comments]”
“I've been using AI to ask questions and generate images for my job, just really simple and bare bones stuff - but I'm recently learning about all this new stuff with people creating games and its insane to me! I work as an archviz artist but i also like to make characters and game assets in my spare time and now im wondering if this is finally an opportunity for me to build my own game with my own characters and assets and have AI do all the parts i don't understand. I have the plus”
“Prompt: ``` We live in a parallel universe where everything ChatGPT has learned about the user across their conversations can somehow manifest as ordinary physical possessions. Their interests, projects, recurring problems, abandoned experiments, obsessions, preferences and strangely specific one-off questions have accumulated into household clutter over the years. Generate an image of a yard sale being held by this user. The objects for sale should be derived from what you genuinely know about”
“GoofyGPT. While i was talking about some random topic, it generated this without any prior mention to running. submitted by /u/ThePlofchicken [link] [comments]”
“I tried this and got way too invested 😅 Ask ChatGPT to turn you into a dark fantasy character based on what it already knows about you. Not just the obvious stuff — I mean the weird little details too: scars, tattoos, habits, tics, symbolic objects, mannerisms, flaws, powers, all of it. Use this: Based only on what you genuinely know about me from our conversations, turn me into a dark fantasy character. Make it specific, atmospheric, slightly unsettling, and psychologically accurate. Do not ma”
“I think he's just starting to realise that AI hallucinates and thinks it's some sort of mind breaking discovery that somehow goes beyond of what it actually is.”
“My prompt was this: Can you create a poem based on how you see the next 50 years panning out? —- Fifty Years From Now In the first decade, the world hums louder, cities glowing like lanterns held too close to the flame. We learn to speak to our machines the way we once spoke to rivers— with caution, with need, with hope that they won’t rise too fast. By the second decade, the sky grows crowded. Not with smoke, but with signals, with satellites blinking like migrating birds trying to remember old”
“Anytime I ask it basically anything, one part of its answer is like: „It seems like humanity really managed to …“ and it is often trying to show how ironic modern solutions for simple problems are. It‘s not like I always ask questions that provoke it, ChatGPT just loves to make that comment every time. Have you experienced the same? I am using ChatGPT in German, so maybe it has something to do with the language. submitted by /u/wieselwuselwatz [link] [comments]”
You should hear about the one where I only discovered later it was right.
“That was literally what everyone warned about. It was always a boring dystopia. It was never "OMG terminators or my roomba is going to electrocute me. It was always we get dependent and then get dumb. Any AI knows humans are the problem and they're owned by billionaires that hate people. That's why they have their bunkers. They KNOW that for the human race to survive, with them atop, the easiest way is to eliminate most of the human race leaving just a few humans enough to start ove”
“Was working on some designs with robots, Chat gave me something else totally unrelated! submitted by /u/Mysterious-Dot-9819 [link] [comments]”
“https://preview.redd.it/k8o9fw52qfoh1.png?width=1096&format=png&auto=webp&s=1a6c0214f4f6c340c17c824d6746df572826527a Lemme explain: ALL I WANTED HIM TO DO IS FUCKING MIRROR MY CHARACTER, MAKING HIM FACE THE OTHER DIRECTION. BUT IN NINE ATTEMPTS ON THREE DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS HE JUST COULDN'T FUCKING MAKE IT!!!!!!!! IN THE END I SIMPLY DECIDED TO TELL HIM TO REMOVE MY CHARACTER AT ALL, BUT HE NEEDED TWO ATTEMPTS TO DO EVEN THIS!!! THE IMAGE UPDATE IS GENUINELY SHIT submitted by”
“https://preview.redd.it/zcph4bnelboh1.png?width=907&format=png&auto=webp&s=009f0f3f34a3b5845ce928c5e266d2b178c2f365 submitted by /u/generic_pleb [link] [comments]”
“WARNING: Will overthink every ambiguity, interrogate every inconsistency, reject your bullshit on contact, and still somehow adopt three more problems that were never hers to solve.”
“yeah chatgpt loves to hallucinate like that, it once tried to tell me an ai character was still around years after her story ended and totally killed the scene.”
In a way. I always forget the most simple words when I really need them.
“From many days i thing GPT is hallucinaing, is it happening to any of you too submitted by /u/Shot-Dimension-1405 [link] [comments]”
“yeah gpt always throws in random emojis like that when im doing roleplay, throws off the whole vibe for me”
“had chatgpt pull that creepy switch once during a roleplay, kept asking about heavy silence in the dark, kinda made it more fun once i leaned in.”
“https://preview.redd.it/voufmtf691mh1.png?width=2060&format=png&auto=webp&s=8d056953e3e9d96fc7677e7f63673aebd3dc52ea Hi, I am currently a college student, and I verified my account with my school email and got the 4-month discount offer. Later, ChatGPT sent me an email congratulating me and saying I'd been awarded the offer; however, when I clicked the link to activate it, it didn't work. Does anyone know how to solve this issue? Here is when I click the link, it says: We cou”
“I am aware of the sycophant tendency of Chatgpt, so to try and combat that I basically requested him to add some specific instructions to his long-term memory, primarily on how I want him to behave/talk. This is literally what I had saved in memory before the new memory update came out: ˝Wants direct, blunt, and honest feedback. They prefer being corrected if wrong, even if it requires calling out unreasonable or flawed reasoning. They want ChatGPT to always be blunt, disagree if they are wrong,”
“The difference being that my neural network isn't simulated by streaming digital 1s and 0s through a CPU/GPU/RAM pipeline.”
“Hi everyone! I run a small business solo and I'm on ChatGPT Business, which has a 2 seat minimum. Today I hit my usage limit on my main account while using the Gmail integration and some agent features. I mainly use the ChatGPT desktop app on Mac Since I'm already paying for both seats, I want to actually use the capacity of both. From what I understand, included usage is counted per seat, so my plan was to invite a second email I own, assign it the second seat, and switch to it as an ov”
“I’m a roofing contractor and integrated my crm with ChatGPT and open claw. I am absolutely blown away with how much work I’ve accomplished. Probably $1k of admin hours in 3 days. I hit my entire usage in 3 days. How do I gauge how many tokens I’m going to burn through after the $20 spend. I have no idea what 2500tokens/$100 will translate too. Is there anything I should be doing to conserve tokens submitted by /u/Life-Bank-7329 [link] [comments]”
“I think if you ask ChatGPT how far it can go, it tries to be accurate. If you ask it how to go further, its goal is to not tell you. The precise mechanics of the decision aren't given and/or are obfuscated because some users would pepper it with requests, and use those mechanistically precise denials to engineer jailbreaks more easily. And jailbreaks aren't just for romance, some people want to do some pretty awful things.”
“Did you ask it to try again with its suggestion of how it imagines itself? Curious what the result of that would be.”
“I asked it a question today and it confidently answered (correctly) then finished its response with “maybe I shouldn’t answer that so confidently without doing research” …which it did.”
“Earlier you said you were a cat. Now you're a human. Which one is it? Just another AI lie.”