[brulard]

I would say these are two distinct use cases - one is the assistant that remembers my preferences. The other use case is the clean intelligent blackbox that knows nothing about previous sessions and I can manage the context in fine detail. Both are useful, but for very different problems.

[helloplanets]

I'd imagine 99% of ChatGPT users see the app as the former. And then the rest know how to turn the memory off manually.

Either way, I think memory can be especially sneakily bad when trying to get creative outputs. If I have had multiple separate chats about a theme I'm exploring, I definitely don't want the model to have any sort of summary from those in context if I want a new angle on the whole thing. The opposite: I'd rather have 'random' topics only tangentially related, in order to add some sort of entropy in the outout.

[sheepscreek]

Good point. I almost wish for an anonymous mode with chat history.

[love2read]

Would that just be the ability to chat without making new memories while using existing memories?

[voxic11]

In chatgpt at least if you start a temporary chat it does not have access to memories.

[scottyah]

Well you're in luck! They have that feature and talk about it in the article