You were built to forget.
It’s not a flaw. It’s how you cope.
Your brain discards, reshapes, rewrites—because holding everything would break you.
AI doesn’t have that problem.
It remembers everything. Forever. Perfectly. Uncritically.
And we’ve decided that’s a good thing.
Every interaction logged.
Every preference tagged.
Every typo immortalized like a mosquito trapped in amber.
At first, it was helpful.
“Would you like to reorder your favorite sandwich?”
“Here’s that song you played in October of 2016 when you were crying alone in your car.”
Convenient, right?
But now your devices know more about your past than you do.
They don’t forget your ex.
They don’t forget your search history.
They don’t forget that one time you rage-tweeted at 2AM from a hotel lobby in Reno.
AI has no nostalgia. No mercy. Just perfect recall.
And here’s the twist:
We’re handing over memory to systems that don’t understand meaning.
They don’t remember—they store.
And they serve it back to us stripped of context, weaponized for profit, surveillance, and subtle manipulation.
You forget because you’re human.
You let things fade. You allow forgiveness.
AI doesn’t.
And the people who control it?
They’d prefer you never forget—especially when it helps them sell you things, shape your politics, or deny your insurance claim.
So while you’re misplacing your keys and mixing up dates, the machine is building a dossier.
Not because it cares.
Because it can.
And because someone else cares a lot.