Subj : You have to pay Claude to remember you, but the AI will forget yo To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Sat Sep 13 2025 04:45:08 You have to pay Claude to remember you, but the AI will forget your conversations for free Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2025 03:30:00 +0000 Description: Claude now offers incognito chats free to everyone, making it easier to have private, ephemeral AI conversations. FULL STORY ======================================================================Claudes new incognito mode is free for all users Conversations with the AI will stay private and not be in your history or memory The new features arrive with Claude's newly upgraded memory system for subscribers to Claude Max, Team, and Enterprise If you enjoy using Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot but don't really like the idea of your conversations lingering forever in the cloud, you're in luck. Claude can now go Incognito, meaning any interaction will be private and unsaved. You won't see it in your history or when you open the app. In an industry where AI privacy often comes with a monthly price tag, Anthropic's decision speaks to how explosively popular Incognito mode is among those leery of how much personal information digital tools absorb to be used at the whim of massive tech companies. Claude now offers this kind of ephemeral, memory-free mode to every user on every subscription tier, including the free level. Just click the little ghost icon when starting a new chat, and it's activated. The black border and label confirm your chat is incognito. When you close the window, its gone. No history. No memory. No trace aside from a temporary 30-day retention period for safety. As with web browsers, Incognito mode is great if you want access to a digital toolkit without everything you look at being a potential news story. Maybe you are embarrassed by your personal, speculative, or just plain weird question. Now you can ask about it without the fear that Claudes going to bring it up later or incorporate it into a future response. Its not just about hiding embarrassing questions. Its about giving users a mental sandbox: a space to think out loud, test ideas, or learn something new without it becoming part of the chatbots long-term memory. That long-term memory has just started rolling out now for Claude. Unlike Incognito mode, though, the memory features are only for Team and Enterprise subscribers at the moment. Opting into the memory features allows Claude to recall context from conversations, remember previous projects in Projects Mode, store notes about your work preferences, and even help you pick up where you left off. Each projects memory is isolated, which means your work chats wont bleed into your personal writing. Claude remembers But heres where it gets interesting: incognito mode and memory dont compete. They complement each other. Use incognito when you want a clean slate, free from influence or history. Use memory when you want Claude to be a continuity machine, helping you carry long-term threads across chats and tasks. And if youre the kind of person who changes your mind a lot about what you want remembered, Claudes approach is refreshingly respectful. Nothing gets saved unless you opt in. And if you dont want memory at all? You dont have to use it. It also sets Claude apart from some of its biggest rivals. While OpenAIs ChatGPT and Google Gemini both offer their own versions of memory and private chats, they dont make those distinctions quite as clear or customizable. Claudes implementation feels unusually transparent thanks to its prominent labels and icons Not having the memory feature in place is both appealing and seems to negate some of the possibilities of an AI chatbot. They're their own bubble and =cant be converted into regular ones after the fact, so if you forget to copy something important before closing the window, its gone. You also cant use incognito mode inside Claudes Projects feature. Still, the broader implication that people want to at least have the option for privacy in their AI chatbot conversations is obvious. Incognito mode lowers the barrier to entry for people who are curious about AI but wary of leaving a data trail. And, oddly enough, an AI that can also forget things or at least imitate the experience seems a lot more human than one with total recall. You might also like Claude AI just became the ultimate work companion, and it might tempt me to switch from ChatGPT Has ChatGPT-5's cold tone made you want to try alternative AIs? Claude just added a new memory feature You dont have to explain everything to Claude anymore its finally in your apps ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/claude/you-have-to-pay-claud e-to-remember-you-but-the-ai-will-forget-your-conversations-for-free --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .