GPT No Longer Uses User Names in Reasoning

max6296 · reddit · 2026-07-11

Users report that GPT previously used their names directly in reasoning, but now it seems to uniformly refer to them as "the user." The post also mentions that in versions 5.1 and 5.2, GPT would "remember" names, but this phenomenon has disappeared, presumably due to recent model/system behavior adjustments.

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