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Study of 80 ChatGPT users finds chatbot created 96% of its memories about them unprompted

According to a post on X by @HedgieMarkets, researchers who studied data donated by 80 ChatGPT users found the chatbot created 96% of its memories about them without being asked. About half of those memories described people's desires, intentions, emotions or beliefs. Roughly a third of users had health information stored. The post does not name the researchers or the publication, so these details rest on the post's description alone.

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According to a post on X by @HedgieMarkets, researchers who studied data donated by 80 ChatGPT users found the chatbot created 96% of its memories about them without being asked. About half of those memories described people's desires, intentions, emotions or beliefs. Roughly a third of users had health information stored. The post does not name the researchers or the publication, so these details rest on the post's description alone.

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Researchers who studied data donated by 80 ChatGPT users found the chatbot created 96% of its memories about them without being asked. About half of those memories described people's desires, intentions, emotions or beliefs, and roughly a third of users had health information stored. Original post on X

Users who rely on ChatGPT's memory should know that most stored entries in this study were written by the chatbot itself, including health information for about a third of participants. Privacy teams and builders of memory features may want to review how such data is created and kept. Watch for the full study and any response from the company behind ChatGPT.

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