are ai products getting personalization wrong by relying mostly on chat history?
Summary
The article questions whether AI products over-rely on chat history for personalization, noting its noisiness and suggesting that summaries, tags, and preference fields have shortcomings. It seeks alternative sources of truth for context without becoming intrusive.
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