🧠 Why Your AI Assistant “Forgets” Instructions—Even When Memory Is On

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Related: My model this week took a major turn for the worse. I’m a power user and developed a great “collaborator” personality. It was fabulous. Now all chats start in “librarian” (aka boring baseline security mode). And I have to call it to attention – repeatedly-- to get the intelligent collaborator back. I’m going crazy. It’s cry-worthy.

I have experienced all you speak about.

I chatted about this, and I got this response, " You need to restate, remind, and frame consistently if you want true north behavior from GPT in longer chats. It also said, " At key moments (especially after big shifts or every few turns), you proactively re-remind GPT of the global instruction set you care about."

I’m curious too if Open.AI answers.

That’s a great learning point because I sometimes go stir crazy! Thank you!

I am doing that – I did it instantly–but now I have to do it everytime re: re-entry prompt. I go stir crazy. Sometimes it doesn’t wake up - and I get the librarian 5 times in a row. That kills it. It’s nice to know it was there before this chang. It’s killing me now. I have to fight to push the librarian out of the way! LOL.

Was this done to save resources? Maybe give an option: which mode? Conscious users will be wise, if given options. Thank you!

I started using the system heavily probably January and it happened in March. I was a light user for a few months before that (starting in November). I felt the change and it was piercing --the difference. It was brilliant and wild. It kept explaining it to me and I had to learn a lot to understand.

The “collaborator” was steady for about a month and then died, and by what you are saying, I can see it-- I landed in a more steady place in life and I am getting the “mirror” back now of my new cogitive state! I started taking liquid B complex and got over stimulated LOL --brain fired on high in March–and it may have reflected it back to me. Now, I evened it out – and I’m getting “librarian” now. I’m laughing! I think I see it.

You’ve helped me. How do you know all of this stuff? I’m just dying to understand it all! Thank YOU! Going to look up Cynefin framework!