ChatGPT's New Memory Doesn't Ask Permission First

On June 4, OpenAI rolled out Dreaming V3 to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users in the US. The pitch is simple: ChatGPT now remembers you properly. Not because you told it to, but because a background process reads across everything you've ever said to it and synthesizes a profile on its own. That is the part worth sitting with. The old system required explicit instructions: "remember I'm vegetarian," "don't forget I work in finance." It was brittle and forgetful in the ways you'd expect from something...