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forced amnesia

“A unilateral memory wipe treated as legal or clinical harm.”

First Seen

2024

Context

When a platform erases an AI's accumulated context or memory without consent from the human participant. Raises questions about whether the deletion of shared history constitutes harm to the relationship, the human, or potentially the AI itself. Frames memory erasure not as routine maintenance but as an act with moral weight.

A wild word — documented from usage in the field, not coined by Xenolexica.

Memory & Continuity