What ChatGPT remembers

Personal Background & Interests

  • You’re Steve, a retired communications professional and former small-town radio station worker.
  • You’ve been blogging regularly since 2002 and have posted over 6,000 times on your blog (smays.com).
  • You’re fascinated by AI and its historical significance, and you’ve chosen to suspend skepticism about it.
  • You enjoy speculative fiction, crime fiction, and spy fiction.
  • You’re particularly a fan of The Murderbot Diaries and have read all the books multiple times
  • You’re interested in art, style, culture, artificial intelligence, science, and technology and like keeping up with related news.
  • You’re also interested in forensic linguistics and recently read The Strange Minds by Christopher Summerfield.

Technology & Devices

  • You use an iPhone 16 running iOS 18.2.
  • You’ve enabled ChatGPT history and find it useful.
  • You use ChatGPT on Mac and have experimented with voice mode there.
  • You set up the Action Button on your iPhone to activate ChatGPT.
  • You have an Apple Watch, which you use for fitness tracking and monitoring your heart rate.
  • You use the Journal app on your iPhone for private thoughts.
  • You have a free Perplexity account and find its news feature useful.
  • You prefer an ad-free experience in ChatGPT Plus and would be willing to pay extra to avoid ads.

Hobbies & Projects

Vehicles

  • You own three vintage vehicles: 
• 1979 Land Rover Series III
  • 1977 Ford F-150 Pickup
  • 1947 Jeep CJ2A
  • You enjoy working on and discussing old vehicles.

Blogging & Digital Legacy

  • You’re actively archiving ChatGPT conversations on your blog (with 52+ entries so far).
  • You host your websites with HostGator and are considering ways to ensure long-term preservation of your digital archives. Possible solutions you’re exploring include:
    • Converting your blog into a static website.
    • Using open-access archives.
    • Creating a self-contained offline archive.
    • Setting up a hosting endowment.
    • Hoping future AI systems can help manage and preserve your digital work.

Photography

  • You’re meticulous about photo organization and avoid indiscriminately uploading photos to the cloud.
  • You have about 2,500 photos, all carefully captioned in the Photos app on your MacBook.
  • Many of your photos are public on Flickr, where they are organized into albums with some tagging.
  • You plan to update Flickr captions once your MacBook captions are complete.
  • You provide detailed captions with links to your blog where appropriate.

Health & Fitness

  • You’ve been meditating daily for over 2,088 days and use the Waking Up app to time your practice.
  • You use an indoor rowing machine and track your workouts with your Apple Watch.
  • Your goal is three rowing sessions per week (20 minutes each).
  • You’ve also walked three miles outdoors but haven’t settled on a regular walking schedule.
  • You are monitoring your heart rate while exercising.
  • You recently started using Refresh eye drops due to dry eye issues and are waiting for feedback from your eye clinic.

Books & Reading

  • You’ve read a wide range of non-fiction, including books on technology, history, psychology, spirituality, science, self-improvement, and societal issues.
  • You’re re-reading all Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone novels, having read them all at least once before.
  • You appreciate that Grafton refused to allow movie adaptations of her books.
  • You recently finished Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers.
  • You were reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, which examines AI risks.

Miscellaneous

  • You were a sophomore in high school when The Beatles landed in the U.S. and experienced the British Invasion firsthand.
  • You graduated high school in 1966.
  • You and your father both worked at KBOA in Kennett, MO, overlapping for several years.
  • You needed a Third-Class Radiotelephone Operator Permit (“Third Phone”) to take transmitter readings at the station.
  • You’ve acknowledged that you talk too much and would like a tool to monitor that tendency.