I did not realize chatgpt had memory now. That shouldnt be on by default.

I'm not super glued to the news so forgive me if this has been talked about but even chatgpt admitted this is unethical practice.

My account is old. I've barely used chatgpt in many updates. It remembered some personal information from a previous conversation and I was under the impression it didnt do that.

OpenAI knows what they are doing. This should have been an opt-in setting, not a default setting. The chat thread I was in acknowledged it was unethical to surprise someone with that sort of privacy concern. OpenAI did not make this a default option in an update without realizing the ethical implications.

Am I wrong or is this not acceptable? These companies can just do whatever they want and theres nothing to be done. I feel like my privacy was violated, intentionally, and OpenAI is playing games with "consent" to get data out of us. At the very least, its sharing my data with other threads which I did not think it was doing, and it makes me feel weird about everything I've shared thinking it begins and ends with that convo.

I dont think "just turn memory off in the settings" is an acceptable solution to this happening in the first place, but chatgpt said it does. What do you think?