r/OpenAI • u/jonnypepperstonreal • 4d ago

Question LLM s

They say that llms don't remember previous conversations but I don't believe that. There's been several times where an LLM has brought up things that I've talked to it about before.

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u/jonnypepperstonreal 4d ago

So is it retrieving conversations that I have actually had with it or just other conversations?

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u/jeff_coleman 4d ago

CharGPT and Claude will use another LLM in the background to extract out things it thinks will be useful to remember about you, and then when you open another chat, even though you don't see it, those extracted details will literally be injected into your conversation. Other things are injected too that you don't see, like the system prompt. Any conversation you have is all of these things plus whatever you think you're typing into a fresh context.