It is pointed out that the recording systems of Claude and ChatGPT are completely different
The chat AIs Claudet and ChatGPT have a mechanism for recording conversations with users and referencing them later. Programmer Shlok Kamani, who investigated this mechanism, reported that 'the mechanisms of the two are completely different.'
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OpenAI's ChatGPT captures and records a comprehensive set of metadata about your interactions with users, which is retained unless you explicitly turn it off in your settings and is referenced when you start a new chat.
The record has several layers. At the base is what Kamani calls the 'user knowledge record,' a 'dense summary' that the AI has learned over multiple interactions with the user: all the projects the user has created, their preferences, and so on.
Next comes the model set context, which is roughly equivalent to reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) and is a record that is overwritten with explicit user-provided instructions. There are also layers such as 'recent conversation content' that learns behavior during a conversation, and 'interaction metadata' that allows the system to fine-tune its behavior without changing existing knowledge.
In this way, ChatGPT keeps track of past records and learns, instantly searching its memory to match the user's question, providing personalized answers with zero latency.
On the other hand, Anthropic's 'Claude' doesn't easily trace back past records. Claude starts from a clean slate with each conversation, doesn't maintain any pre-loaded user profiles or conversation histories, and only leverages records when explicitly invoked. Additionally, Claude only references the raw conversation history and searches chats in real time; it doesn't learn from interactions like ChatGPT does.
If you ask Claude to recall a transcript using phrases like 'What did we talk about?', 'Continuing on from last time,' or 'Remember that thing we talked about before?', Claude will launch a search tool that functions like a web search or code execution. This tool runs in real time during the chat, searching and analyzing past history to answer your current question.
The tool also supports specific time periods: 'What did you discuss during the last week of November 2024?' Kamani asked, and Claude retrieved 16 interactions with Kamani from that exact time period.
'While the ChatGPT and Claude assistant apps were functionally aligned, their paths have dramatically diverged. ChatGPT has evolved into a consumer product that caters to the benefits of 'it just works and remembers you without you having to think about it,' while Claude is optimized for people who want their records to be unreferenced until they explicitly invoke them, focusing on developer tools, coding, and professional workflows. The difference in the implementation of the record system perfectly reflects this divergence,' Kamani said.
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