Probing ChatGPT's Memory: Asking It to Guess Shortcuts for a Game It Never Played

saijanai · reddit · 2026-09-15

A Reddit experiment asked ChatGPT to guess command names and keyboard shortcuts for Pax Romana without web access. One version honestly flagged its output as low-confidence convention-based reconstruction—a 'useful negative result'—while another corrected the game to Anno 117 and produced plausible WASD-style bindings, illustrating how models separate retrieved facts from convention-based guessing.

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