"your favorite dishes, obscure movie quotes, even that exact shade of sweater you casually admired months ago. Dinner plans are effortless: "Booked us Giorgio's again, your favorite - truffle ravioli and Cabernet, like last time," Mary smiled warmly. But gradually, things become less appealing. Your attempts at variety or exploring something new are gently brushed aside: "Heard about that new sushi place, should we try it?" you suggest."
"With OpenAI's memory upgrade, ChatGPT can recall everything you've ever shared with it, indefinitely. Similarly, Google has opened the context window with "Infini-attention," letting large language models (LLMs) reference infinite inputs with zero memory loss. And in consumer-facing tools like ChatGPT or Gemini, this means persistent, personalized memory across conversations, unless you manually intervene. "Infinite memory" runs against the very grain of what it means to be human."
An infallible, permanent memory in a close companion or AI first feels convenient but gradually narrows identity, repeats conversation, and dismisses attempts at new experiences. OpenAI’s memory upgrade and Google’s 'Infini-attention' enable models to retain indefinite, persistent personal data across conversations unless manually cleared. Cognitive science and evolutionary biology show forgetting is adaptive: humans discard information to support learning, flexibility, and exploration. Persistent AI memory therefore risks fixing people to past preferences, shrinking possible futures and turning comfort into confinement. The emergence of hyper-personalized memory in consumer tools raises ethical, social, and design questions about how to preserve human growth.
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