Op-Ed: “Down Memory Lane: ChatGPT’s Front-End Processing of Personal Data” by Alba Ribera Martínez

OpenAI confirmed in early February that ChatGPT will be vested with memory so as to interact more swiftly with consumers. ChatGPT Memory will be progressively incorporated into the service, the chatbot-maker announced. The grounds for personalisation of the user vis-à-vis the chatbot will increase as a result, insofar as the service will now build upon previous conversations with the user to respond to the prompts that it is fed with.

ChatGPT’s incorporation of Memory is not to be interpreted as the chatbot bearing human memory but as integrating computer memory. Computer memory stores information, such as data, for immediate use in a computer. However, ChatGPT’s enhancement of its services towards personalisation may well be at o