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I had a new GPT4 chat in ChatGPT today say material that was very explicitly based in another chat. It isn’t supposed to know about other conversations, right?

Specifically, I had been asking about the difference between knowledge and understanding in another chat. Then I started another chat where I copied and pasted material from an earlier chat about factors of wellbeing. The response didn’t have anything to do with wellbeing, it just explained the difference between understanding and knowledge. So, again, there was nothing about this topic in the current chat, only in an earlier chat.

It was kind of spooky. I thought that each new chat was separate from all prior chats! Clearly it broke out of one particular box.




Could also be just a random occurrence that seems significant to you without more data points, interesting anecdote none-the-less will be looking for it in my prompts




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