Audit What AI Knows About You

Two reasons. First: hygiene. You almost certainly have old accounts holding old context you no longer need associated with you. Second: consolidation. Once you know what's out there, you can decide what deserves to move into a durable, portable version — and what should just be wiped.

• A notes app or spreadsheet to log what you find.
• Your list of AI accounts (start with the browser password manager — it'll surprise you).
• A downloads folder for export ZIPs.
• 30 uninterrupted minutes.

Step 1 — Read the memory list

Settings → Personalization → Memory → Manage. Read every line. This is what ChatGPT has explicitly saved about you; it's more revealing than most users expect.

Step 2 — Check custom instructions

Settings → Personalization → Custom instructions. The two boxes here shape every reply.

Step 3 — Delete or export

Delete individual memories with the trash icon. Wipe all with "Clear memory." Export a full account via Settings → Data controls → Export before you delete anything you might miss.

Claude keeps most persistent context inside Projects rather than a single memory list. Settings → Projects shows what's persistent per-project. Deleting a project removes its persistent context. Export before delete via Settings → Privacy → Export.

Google surfaces AI context inside myactivity.google.com → Gemini Apps. You can see every prompt, delete individually, or wipe the whole product. Gemini also draws on cross-Google personalization — check myaccount.google.com → Personal info for what's being surfaced.

Meta AI conversations live in the Facebook / Instagram / WhatsApp apps. Go to Account Center → Your information and activity → Search history for the AI-specific search view, and the messaging exports for the AI conversations proper.

Otter, Limitless, Plaud — each keeps transcripts and often the raw audio. Log in, check the retention setting, decide which transcripts you want to keep, and delete the rest. Voice archives are the fastest-growing long-tail liability for most users.

Ask three questions of every piece of context you find:

1. Would I re-teach this if I lost it? Yes → keep (export, migrate to portable memory). No → wipe.
2. Do I want this specific provider to know it? Yes → keep in place. No → move to a vault you own, then wipe here.
3. Is it accurate? Stale or wrong context is worse than no context. Correct or delete.

Take everything you decided to keep, export it, and put it somewhere provider-independent. A folder on disk is the minimum. A portable memory vault is the version that stays useful in the tools you'll be using next year — see the pillar guide.