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Chatgpt shares context between chats. I wonder how that impacts it?

It seems like a good approach though. What you dont want to do is ever suggest that its wrong yourself. Usually it will just assume it is wrong.

Actually what I find impressive is when I do this and it actually pushes back to defend itself.



Does it share context even if no "memory updated" message appears indicating it has stored a fact about you?

I asked ChatGPT and it says no, but then again it's not reliable at introspection or at revealing data about how it works.


I think they are different systems, one is a collection of saved snippets and the other more like RAG over chat history.


ChatGPT assures me it doesn't use RAG (fed from my other chat windows), but will use memory-saved preferences (in the store that can be accessed and reviewed in Settings->Personalization->Memory).

Then again, I don't think ChatGPT is reliable when reporting on its own inner workings.

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Oh, no, here it says it also references chat history: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8590148-memory-faq


You can use ChatGPT for these kinds of questions but it needs to use search or research mode, don't ask it in closed book mode.




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