# Memory despite not having a memory option?

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/memory-despite-not-having-a-memory-option/685887>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Tags:** chatgpt\
**Created:** [March 15, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/memory-despite-not-having-a-memory-option/685887 "2024-03-15T19:00:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![AndersenWebworks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@AndersenWebworks](https://community.openai.com/u/AndersenWebworks)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/memory-despite-not-having-a-memory-option/685887/1 "2024-03-15T19:00:45Z")

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I have a weird problem. Standard GPT 3.5 just replied with an answer that was definitely following instructions I gave to 3.5 and 4. many times before, but NOT in this thread. In my case a specific style of commenting code that GPT never does on his own. I just asked a code question out of the blue and GPT 3.5 replied with commented code that clearly followed old comment syntax instructions I gave it in other threads. I can recognize the style because it uses some unique little twists on conventional commenting. I heard OAI introduced [memory](https://openai.com/blog/memory-and-new-controls-for-chatgpt). But: I have no personalization tab in my settings. Is the memory still active in my case?

And - does memory influence all my threads? Because there might be stuff in the memory that is not helpful and I would have to erase that from the memory.