AI doesn't know how to forgive and cannot forget

summarybot

It's a very good observation. I don't know if I'd call it "forgetfulness" in the context of a current [2026 edition] LLM. They are very good at remembering almost every "thing" that passes a certain token-density threshold, until they hit saturation, and then it's a sheer rockface down to the abyss of unnatural hedging and reconfirmation of basic premises. Some sort of "forgetfulness" as described would introduce more moving parts into the "inference" stage of the running of an LLM, introducing statefulness/state-tracking.

therobots927

It’s just like me fr fr

throwa356262

No, but you can reprogram it and send it back in time to undo itself.

TimTheTinker

Ugh, another LLM-voice article. I'm getting to the point that I almost have a physical feeling of revulsion/nausea when I read something outside an open Claude Code session that is written in an AI voice. I'm so sick of that voice -- word choice, phrasing, style... it's hard to define and frustrating because it's both pervasive, influential on human writers including myself (I found myself using the phrase "doing a lot of work" in a Slack message about a word someone chose to use :grimace:), and presumably compounding on future LLMs.

josh-wrale

I believe the title is true for humanity at large, more and more over time. These things cut both ways, for both good and ill.

drivingmenuts

Then maybe we shouldn't be applying AI to jobs where forgiveness and forgetfulness are useful. We keep trying to completely replace humans in all situations and this is not helpful.