The ChatGPT Experiment - Simplifying Chat GPT For Curious Beginners Ep 83 - Memory in ChatGPT: What Is it And How's It Work?
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Aug 25, 2025 Dive into the fascinating world of memory in ChatGPT! Discover how the memory feature allows the AI to remember details like your name and preferences, enhancing your interactions. Learn practical tips to manage what the AI saves or forgets, and the distinction between memory and custom instructions. As fall approaches, reflect on the transition into new routines and how that impacts users' engagement. Empower yourself with tools to personalize your experience and make ChatGPT work better for you!
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Memory Is Selective, Not Comprehensive
- Memory saves key facts across chats but does not store entire conversations or documents.
- It selectively captures nuggets it deems useful to improve future help.
Host's Personal Memory Use Cases
- Cary shares that ChatGPT remembers ongoing work like his podcast and client projects.
- He also describes explicitly telling it not to remember a client's website project.
Tell It To Remember Or Forget Explicitly
- Tell ChatGPT during a conversation to "remember this" to add specific facts to memory.
- Say "forget that" or delete entries in the memory panel to remove unwanted items.