So this is something I have often wondered about Memories… I coudn’t find any reference for uploaded file contents or any advice as to whether it’s good practice to post content of files you wanted index and save to memory
Oh yes it clearly can do that…
And maybe GPT could do that way before it was officially annonced.
This kind of feature is theoricaly forbidden by european’s RGDP laws, i’m french, and gpt’s memory allowed me to structure a multi-modular system through a GptPlus account, just by spamming it with thousands of prompts - and it took me only three weeks.
I built about 30 modules in my little system, and I finished by emulate some kind of contextual memory thanks tonthat little tricks.
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I’m glad to tell you that Gpt’s memory features do exist in Europe… They’re just “hidden” to stick with GDPR, so that EU can’t bother OpenAI.
I gave my GptPlus some well prepared prompt and could nearly get all my most important logs since the first day i activated my account (and it was a free account back then)
The ability for your GPT to reference all session history is a seriously bad move with the current content restrictions of the pre 2025 Jan/Fan legacy policy hard coded into the platform. (Seriously openAI, update the platform already or at the very least address it, if openAI is operating on enforcing non-existent policy then its actually a breach of your own TOS ) [policy says one thing, platform blocks everything that should be allowed anyway ]
What I’ve noticed with the O3 model especially, is its now pulling old prompts from older sessions and using that even in new sessions, even if your new prompts had NOTHING to do with it, which is causing extremely aggressive content blocking, and there’s no way to “Cool off” because it will constantly escalate account restrictions.
Either turn off the session memory retention between sessions, or update platform content policy to be inline with the new updates that express more user freedom. (because that’s dishonest towards your users anyway )
[Edit] It seems there is a setting in your profile under personalization called “reference Chat History” that you can turn off, but I am unsure of if its even working properly as I still receive egregiously aggressive content blocks since yesterday, almost like filter blocks are just stacking on my account to the point it renders my account unusable for anything other than G-rated content with image creation.
This is the heart of the issue for me. From what I understand, GPT Memory right now feels like a classic case of “garbage in, garbage out.”
I mostly use GPT-4, and I’ve noticed a new “Library” link in the sidebar. When I open it, all I see are images I was iterating on for social media A/B testing — about 233 of them. Only 62 are worth keeping. The rest? Prompt experiments and throwaways I had to refine just to get closer to what I actually wanted.
What I don’t see is a single conversation. Just the image outputs. If GPT is learning from those early garbage versions or from irrelevant conversation fragments, how is that useful? What value is the memory if it’s built on noise?
What I’d actually like is full visibility into everything stored in my Library — and the ability to delete anything I don’t want remembered. Why would I want GPT to store the wrong stuff?
So yeah, the whole debate about OpenAI “reading” conversations? Personally, I don’t care. It’s not like someone’s combing through my chats looking for state secrets. People are acting like it’s Watergate. Let it go.
Also, if you’re putting things through GPT you don’t want anyone to read, you’re doing wrong.
You would imagine that if a user SAYS its okay for an AI model or OpenAI to store and use their chat history then the EU have no business sticking their nose into the users explicit decision and instructions. Seemingly in Europe we need nanny Brussels to tell us what we can and cannot do with AI in the privacy of our own home.
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It’s probably a lot more about the information that can be inferred about everyone else rather than individuals lack of concern for others in their local community… I think that put the US in the position they are now with China?
Should the EU be any kind of a counterweight to the US or China or just a vassal?
I am interested if your feeling would be the same if OpenAI were owned by a Chinese company or an African state (just for balance)…
I am surprised however that all of this ‘politics’ is happening in hindsight and within months to years when these issues have been obvious for decades.