Guide · DRI-GD-2024-02

How to Recognise AI-Mediated Memory

A practical field guide to spotting synthetic recall and algorithmic confabulation.

Summary

A practical field guide to spotting synthetic recall and algorithmic confabulation.

Guide DRI-GD-2024-02 examines synthetic recall and field guide through the institute's public-interest lens: how technical systems change agency, trust, memory, and shared reality.

Research context

This publication is part of Drifting Reality Institute's ongoing archive of research, essays, guides, and public analysis. It connects product analysis with civic questions about consent, contestability, identity, and institutional accountability.

Where real companies or products are discussed, the analysis is based on public materials, observable interface patterns, and clearly identified interpretation rather than claims about private intent.