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The new memory feature in Gemini got turned on by default and every answer came out like this. It kept working in details from one particularly long thread. Everything was framed in terms of the common elements. Everything. I turned it off immediately.

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This seems like a huge risk factor for users who are at risk for schizophrenia - if someone is using the LLM as an "AI companion", the model is likely to reinforce, or even suggest, illusory connections between events or experiences the user has described in their conversations.

How can you turn it off without turning off history ("My Activity") altogether?

I noticed the "memory" too and it's turned Gemini into a useless syncophant for me, but so subtle that I almost didn't spot it.

https://gemini.google.com/saved-info

The toggle by "Your past chats with Gemini"

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