The Inception Problem: When Your GPT Chat Gets Lost in Its Own Dreams

The Inception Problem If you’ve ever had a lengthy conversation with ChatGPT or Claude where you jumped between topics, asked follow-up questions, and provided corrections, you might have noticed the AI starting to get… confused. Suddenly it’s mixing up information from earlier in your chat. It’s forgetting what you just asked. It’s making up details that never existed. I call this The Inception Problem, and it perfectly explains one of the biggest challenges in working with large language models....

April 11, 2025 · 2 min · Marc Hampson