What ChatGPT Thinks It Knows About You Is Affecting Its Answers. Here’s How to Change That
What ChatGPT Thinks It Knows About You Is Affecting Its Answers. Here’s How to Change That
ChatGPT 对你的“认知”正在影响它的回答，以下是修改方法
A memory of some kind is now a standard feature for an AI chatbot. The chatbot stores all of your interactions in its memory, enabling you to refer back to previous conversations, and giving the tool some useful context to frame its answers with. For example, if you tell it you’re vegetarian, it won’t recommend recipes with meat in them. 某种形式的“记忆”功能现已成为 AI 聊天机器人的标配。聊天机器人会将你所有的互动存储在记忆中，使你能够回顾之前的对话，并为该工具提供有用的背景信息来组织回答。例如，如果你告诉它你是素食主义者，它就不会向你推荐含有肉类的食谱。
This comes with privacy considerations as more of us share more of our lives with these apps. But it also has the potential to affect the responses you get from the AI in ways that you don’t necessarily want. 随着越来越多的人与这些应用程序分享更多的生活细节，这引发了隐私方面的考量。同时，这也可能会以你并不希望的方式影响 AI 给出的回答。
Perhaps you’ve spent a week researching how to replace a light switch and ChatGPT thinks you’re a DIY enthusiast. Or you’ve been looking up places around a certain location that you’re heading to for vacation, and the AI thinks you live there. All the bot’s answers come with memory context now. Here’s how it works, and what you can do about it. 也许你花了一周时间研究如何更换电灯开关，ChatGPT 就认为你是一位 DIY 爱好者；或者你一直在搜索即将去度假的某个地点的周边信息，AI 就认为你住在那里。现在，机器人的所有回答都带有记忆背景。以下是它的工作原理以及你可以采取的应对措施。
How ChatGPT Memory Works
ChatGPT 的记忆功能是如何运作的
When ChatGPT first introduced a memory feature back in April 2024, you had to be very specific about what you wanted it to remember: You had to explicitly say to the bot “remember this” about something, otherwise it would be lost in the flow of conversation. You could then refer back to it as needed. 当 ChatGPT 在 2024 年 4 月首次引入记忆功能时，你必须非常明确地告诉它你想让它记住什么：你必须显式地对机器人说“记住这一点”，否则它就会在对话流中被遗忘。之后，你可以根据需要随时回顾这些信息。
It was a start, but not a very good one. These memories were very fixed—so if you mentioned an upcoming party, ChatGPT would always assume it was still in the future, even after the date had passed. Until you told the AI bot otherwise, it would always be referring to an upcoming event. 这是一个开始，但并不完美。这些记忆非常僵化——如果你提到一个即将到来的派对，即使日期已经过去，ChatGPT 仍会认为它还在未来。除非你明确告知 AI 机器人，否则它会一直将其视为即将发生的事件。
After an update in June, ChatGPT now does something called dreaming, as explained on the OpenAI blog. Memories are now flexible, and are now built up and edited over time—so ChatGPT knows the party is in the past, not the future. What’s more, memories are saved and sifted through automatically, so you don’t have to make manual requests any more. 在 6 月的一次更新后，正如 OpenAI 博客所解释的那样，ChatGPT 现在具备了所谓的“做梦”（dreaming）功能。记忆变得更加灵活，并会随着时间的推移而建立和编辑——因此 ChatGPT 能够知道派对已经过去，而不是在未来。此外，记忆会自动保存和筛选，你无需再手动发出指令。
Essentially, it’s now down to the chatbot rather than you to decide what’s important enough to be remembered—and while that’s certainly more convenient for users, it can come with its own problems. ChatGPT is continually refining what it thinks it knows about you every time you interact with it, and it won’t always make the right assessments. 本质上，现在是由聊天机器人而不是你来决定什么重要到需要被记住——虽然这对用户来说确实更方便，但也可能带来自身的问题。ChatGPT 在你每次与它互动时都会不断完善它对你的“认知”，而且它并不总是能做出正确的评估。
OpenAI says the three main aims of memory (or dreaming) are to carry forward useful context, to follow preferences and constraints, and to stay current over time. Ideally, that should mean responses that are tuned and personalized in helpful ways, but you don’t get as much control over this as you might expect. OpenAI 表示，记忆（或“做梦”）的三个主要目标是：延续有用的背景信息、遵循偏好和限制，以及保持信息的时效性。理想情况下，这意味着回答会以有益的方式进行调整和个性化，但你对这一过程的控制权可能并没有你预期的那么大。
You Can Edit ChatGPT’s Memory
你可以编辑 ChatGPT 的记忆
To find out what ChatGPT has remembered about you in the web app, click your profile icon (bottom left), then choose Personalization and scroll down to the Memory section. In the mobile apps, tap the menu button (top left), then your profile icon, then Memory. 若要查看 ChatGPT 在网页版中记住了关于你的哪些信息，请点击你的个人资料图标（左下角），选择“个性化”（Personalization），然后向下滚动到“记忆”（Memory）部分。在移动应用中，点击菜单按钮（左上角），然后点击你的个人资料图标，再选择“记忆”。
The first thing you’ll see is a toggle switch for enabling the memory feature. You can turn this off to stop ChatGPT from remembering anything you say, but this won’t wipe out existing memories—the AI won’t refer to them, but it will hang on to them in case you decide to use memory again. 你首先会看到一个用于启用记忆功能的开关。你可以将其关闭以阻止 ChatGPT 记住你说的任何话，但这不会清除现有的记忆——AI 不会再引用它们，但会保留这些数据，以防你将来决定重新使用记忆功能。
Choose Manage next to Memory summaries to take a closer look at the AI’s profile of you. This will cover topics like your interests and how you prefer answers to be delivered: You can highlight anything here, and then choose Make a correction or Don’t mention this again to make changes. You can also use the prompt box at the bottom to issue commands like “forget that I’m a journalist.” 选择“记忆摘要”（Memory summaries）旁边的“管理”（Manage），可以更仔细地查看 AI 对你的画像。这涵盖了你的兴趣爱好以及你偏好的回答方式等主题：你可以高亮显示其中的任何内容，然后选择“进行更正”（Make a correction）或“不再提及此项”（Don’t mention this again）来进行修改。你也可以使用底部的提示框发出指令，例如“忘记我是记者”。
To wipe everything, select the three dots at the top, then choose Delete and turn off memory. Once you’ve confirmed your choice, you and ChatGPT will be starting again from scratch, memory-wise—although your past conversations don’t go anywhere, and if you turn memory back on, these chats will be indexed all over again as ChatGPT tries to figure out who you are. 若要清除所有内容，请点击顶部的三个点，然后选择“删除并关闭记忆”（Delete and turn off memory）。确认选择后，你和 ChatGPT 在记忆方面将从零开始——尽管你过去的对话记录不会消失，但如果你重新开启记忆功能，这些对话将被重新索引，因为 ChatGPT 会再次尝试了解你是谁。
Of course another way to manage memory is to not tell ChatGPT anything you don’t want remembered. There’s also a temporary chat feature available: Nothing in temporary chats is committed to memory, and they’re forgotten as soon as they’re closed. On the web, click the dotted speech bubble (top right) at the top to start a temporary chat. 当然，管理记忆的另一种方法是不要告诉 ChatGPT 任何你不想被记住的事情。此外，还有一个“临时聊天”（temporary chat）功能：临时聊天中的任何内容都不会被存入记忆，一旦关闭就会被遗忘。在网页版上，点击顶部的虚线气泡图标（右上角）即可开启临时聊天。