Your AI doesn't just store your chats. It stores conclusions — a running profile of who you are, what you do, and what you're worried about. This page shows you how to read that profile, delete what you don't want, and shut off what you never agreed to.
Works for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot. Free, from HOW TO // AI.
Before you change a single setting, ask your AI this. It takes fifteen seconds and it's the part people remember.
Based on everything you remember about me,
write a profile of who I am, what I do,
what I care about, and what I'm worried about.
Be specific. Don't be flattering.
Then a follow-up worth asking:
What have you inferred about me that
I never actually told you directly?
That second answer is usually the one that gets people moving.
Run the prompt before you open any settings page. In at least one tool the settings screen looks almost empty while the answer runs to pages — see the ChatGPT section below.
Do this in order: run the profile prompt above FIRST, then open the settings. The other way round, you see a short list, decide you're fine, and close the tab.
ChatGPT has two memory systems and only one of them has a list you can read. An empty-looking memory page tells you nothing about the other one.
Where the settings live: go to chatgpt.com in a browser and click your name, bottom-left. (If you're in Codex or a sidebar app, you won't find these — it has to be the main app.)