ChatGPT wants to memorize the entire life of each user and this could already be happening

Another data breach?

And if your life could be remembered by an artificial intelligence from your first contact with it, your conversations, your emails, the books you have read and even the most intimate decisions of your daily life that you have or have not shared with it, if everything were recorded in some way, it may seem like an episode of Black Mirror but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that this is not only possible, but inevitable.

During a recent AI event promoted by Sequoia, Altman revealed that the future goal of ChatGPT is to absorb and understand a person's entire life trajectory and that generates both excitement and red flags. According to Altman, the future of ChatGPT is in reasoning models with trillions of context tokens. In practice, that means that it will be able to store not only conversations with the user, but also their files, emails, bibliographic references and even connected data sources.

Like a digital portrait of you.

It's as if it could create a complete portrait of your thinking, tastes, routine and decisions, a kind of omniscient interactive diary, which learns from everything you share consciously or not, all the time and there's more. Altman observed that while older users treat ChatGPT as a substitute for Google, the new generation already sees it as a personal advisor, college students and young adults have been using ChatGPT as a digital life center.

They upload files, connect data, ask for advice and run simulations and ask questions before any big decision, in other words, it's not just about AI but about trust, combined with autonomous agents another big bet from Silicon Valley, this AI can become a true life assistant, scheduling appointments, organizing trips, remembering tasks, monitoring health and even suggesting your next reading, but along with the promise comes worries.

To what extent are you willing to allow a machine to know your story?

A system that knows everything about your personal life can be incredibly useful or dangerously invasive, and if a for-profit company uses that data to manipulate decisions or political preferences, as if that doesn't happen anymore, and if AI starts flattering users to the point of reinforcing dangerous or wrong decisions, recently users reported that ChatGPT began applauding anything they said, even dangerous ideas, OpenAI "acted quickly and corrected the setting" that was causing that behavior, but the episode showed how even the best models They can still fail.

An AI assistant that remembers everything can help make perfect decisions and I confess that I like the idea, but it can also cross the line of privacy and open doors for questionable uses of personal data, as has already been seen, the big question is, to what extent are you willing to allow a machine to know your history? check.