If a user wants to avoid it, they can switch to a temporary chat that does not appear in history, and won’t use or create a memory.
OpenAI announced it is adding a major upgrade to its signature web-based chatbot application, ChatGPT: persistent memory.
Rolling out slowly for selected users of ChatGPT’s free tier and paid subscription ChatGPT Plus ($20 per month) to start, the feature will allow users to ask ChatGPT to remember information they give it, which the app can then recall later, even across new, unrelated chat sessions.
This is a distinct difference from the way ChatGPT has operated to date, in which the app only remembers information the user provides to it in a single chat session. Once you close that chat session and start a new one, ChatGPT has, until now, started over with a tabula rasa (blank slate) knowledge, other than any “custom instructions” the user may have set up for it in the settings.
Now, with its new memory feature, ChatGPT can help save users time by avoiding them having to repeat information across chat sessions.
However, it is only rolling out to a select group of free and Plus users initially to see how impactful it is. Teams and Enterprise plan subscribers will get the capability at a later stage.
The move to enhance ChatGPT this way comes as competition in the AI assistant space continues to grow intense.
Just last week, Google made an effort to push its AI chatbot front and center with a major rebrand and the inclusion of its most capable Gemini Advanced model under a new paid plan.
