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Graham Barlow

I pushed ChatGPT toward its hidden chat limit — here's what actually happens when you reach it

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You might not be aware, but your ChatGPT chat sessions have a hard limit. They can only go on for so long before you reach it. Confusingly there seem to be two types of limit as well. The first is to do with memory.

The memory limit (how much of the current chat that ChatGPT can remember for context) is not measured in time, or the number of messages you’ve typed, but in things called tokens.

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