Mollick: Local AI Agent Memory Can't Truly Be Turned Off

Ethan Mollick points out that locally-running agents like Fable and Astra cannot effectively disable their memory: they keep notes about users in markdown files and reference them, contaminating outputs with user preferences.

2026-09-06 ~ 2026-09-06 · 2 related posts

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