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What your chatbot remembers about you
A plain guide to chat history, “memory” features and the settings worth checking tonight.
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Talking to an AI assistant feels private, a little like thinking out loud. It is closer to sending a message to a company. What happens next depends on the product and on your settings.
Three kinds of remembering
- History: a saved list of your past chats that you can scroll back through.
- Memory: facts the assistant keeps about you to personalise future answers.
- Training: whether your conversations may be used to improve future versions.
These are usually separate switches. Turning off one does not turn off the others, so it is worth opening the settings page and reading each line.
A sensible default
Share with a chatbot what you would be comfortable writing in an email to a helpful stranger at a large company. For medical, legal or financial questions, describe the situation without names, account numbers or addresses. You will still get a useful answer.
It feels like thinking out loud. It is closer to sending a letter.
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