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Re:Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI by bsimpson on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @10:06PM (#46536696)
I dislike that it has a memory.

It creeps me out when a past session poisons a current one.

Re:Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI by transcriptase on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:29PM (#46537203)
Exactly. I went through a phase of playing around with ESP32s and now it tries to steer every prompt about anything technology or electronics related back to how it can be used in conjunction with a microcontroller, regardless of how little sense it makes.
Re:Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI by fluidcruft on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @10:53PM (#46536998)
I agree. For me it's annoying because everything it generates is too tailored to the first stuff I started chatting with it about. I have multiple responsibilities and I haven't been able to get it to compartmentalize. When I'm wearing my "radiology research" support hat it assumes I'm also wearing my "MRI physics" hat and to weaves everything for MRI. It's really annoying.
Re:Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI by 00deadbeef on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:53AM (#46538036)
Re:Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI by fluidcruft on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:54AM (#46540451)
Thank you! I feel really dumb for not knowing about that!
Re:Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI by 00deadbeef on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:50AM (#46538025)
You can turn it off
Re:Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI by bandrami on Thursday January 08, 2026 @05:35AM (#46539484)
Agree. Memory is absolutely a misfeature in almost every LLM use case