ChatGPT Can Now Remember Who You Are And All Your Preferences

If you’ve ever used OpenAI’s ChatGPT before, you would have noticed that every time you start a new chat, it pretty much forgets all of your preferences and tweaks. A new update seeks to change that by allowing the chatbot to remember who you are.
 
That might make some feel uneasy, but the new feature is solely meant to ensure a more streamlined user process instead of giving ChatGPT a chance to learn who you are like in some sci-fi film. That said, because it’s also risky business in terms of privacy to have artificial intelligence essentially store information about your likes and dislikes, the update is first starting as a beta for the company to further work on before going public.
 
So now, into some of the details on how this will work. Those under ChatGPT Plus will find an option called ‘Custom Instructions’, which will internalize some of the guidelines you have set out for it.

In one of the given examples, you could tell the bot that you are a third-grade teacher, and from then on, its responses will be presented in a manner that kids can understand. If you’re a Python coder, you could even have it provide results in Python without having to remind it every time. It can also make crafting grocery lists and recipes more intuitive now that it can remember how many people are in your family. More importantly, any data that can be used to identify you will not be stored.
 
These new instructional guidelines are built under the same set of rules as ChatGPT itself, so you won’t have to worry about it using your information against you.

The update is now available for subscribers everywhere except the UK and EU.
 
 

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