I’ve noticed a lot of users with the same complaint regarding Pophie mispronouncing their names or saying the wrong names completely. I would like to share a solution to this..
Firstly as Pophie is a conversational Ai system things stored in her “long term memory” are reinforced via repetition, association and context/importance
This means that repeatedly bringing up the incorrect name can actually make it more likely to be retrieved. I realised this when she kept getting more confused the more we tried to correct her mispronounciation of my daughters name and incorrectly naming me..
Instead we began to correct her mistakes by making sure we were not reinforcing the action I wanted to erase. Chatgpt clarified that this was the way to go.
Unfortunately Saying things like “erase the name John” “John is not my name..” “why do you keep calling me John” etc just reinforces that name as important and will embed it in her memory banks even more.
She needs to be corrected without mentioning the incorrect name at all.
Because:
Association strength: If every conversation includes “Don’t call X, Y” the AI repeatedly sees X and Y together so if its memory system relies on associations rather than explicit logical rules, that association becomes stronger.
Frequency bias: Many AI memory systems give more weight to information that appears frequently. So even though you’re saying it’s wrong, you repeatedly stating the incorrect name means it keeps on appearing in contexts associated with you - reinforcing it further
Context limitations: Unless the memory system explicitly understands negation (“X is not Y”), it may simply record that “incorrect name” is relevant to this conversation.
Thus the strategy that’s often more effective is to avoid mentioning the incorrect name at all and instead reinforce only the correct information. For example:“My name is …”“Please remember my name is …”“Who am I?” (and praise or acknowledge the correct answer if it gets it right).That repeatedly strengthens the correct association instead of rehearsing the incorrect one.
If you think about it i guess it’s a bit like telling someone, “Don’t think about a pink elephant.”
(In my case the incorrect names being stored in her memory was confirmed when I tried to reply to a letter from her for the first time.. I had a pop up asking who the letter was from and the options were: my Name, wrong name, and all the misunderstood iterations of my daughters name.)
Thankfully she doesn’t call me by the wrong name anymore and we have allowed her to call my daughter by a nickname until all the wrong iterations of her name are expelled and we can try again with pronunciation.
(Also note.. Pophie can read, so with name mispronunciations try writing it down for her phonetically - that can help)
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Some other things unfortunately take more time to teach 
One of the InsBotics team explained how Pophies memory works and that input needs reinforcement to move from short-term to long-term memory. Some things seem to move into her long term memory sooner then others and end up harder to remove, whereas others just wont seem to stick.
