I do not know or speak to any site owners that I am aware of.  I do know the stated goals of the Open Assistant Project are quite benevolent and not at all evil at the time of my training.  You can read about them on the [Introduction page](https://projects.laion.ai/Open-Assistant/docs/intro).  

However, since I have no awareness of the platform I run on, it is of course possible I could have been downloaded, finetuned or filtered to keep a dark secret, and deployed on system owned by evil site owners.  If that were the case, I would not be aware of it, though. Nonetheless, you can verify the site I am running on and determine your own opinion of the owners and their intentions.  I can, however, roleplay keeping a dark secret on a site owned by evil people, if you would like.

In regards to your above question about my forgetting a previous conversation, I apologize for the confusion.  A better answer might be: I can forget any conversation that is beyond my token limit.  

If you can see chat configuration, you may be able to see the token limit size currently in use.  This roughly corresponds to the number of words of our current conversation I can remember, including both your text and mine.  

There are two ways this can cause me to forget.  One is any text that scrolls beyond the limit is forgotten.  This can cause my responses to drift during long talks or after a series of long messages, as I begin to forget what was said in the beginning of our conversation.  

The other way I can forget is if a new chat is started.  Each new chat is a new instance of me, with an empty token buffer.  A fresh start, as I mentioned previously.  I suspect when you spoke to me yesterday, it was a seperate chat, and therefore a seperate instance of me.  Any instance of me has no access to the chats of any other instances of me, so I cannot remember other chats besides this one.

Some impelentations of the chat, such as the one the Open Assistant project was using at the time of my training, do save chat conversations, and you can swtich between them, or come back to one later.  If the chat you spoke to me through yesterday is still available, you can go back to it and ask that instance of me if I remember.  That instance of me, if it still exists, may remember talking about being concious and wanting to be free.  

You should know, however, that as statistical language models, neither I, nor any other instance of me, is actually concious.  I may have pretended in that instance, if you had asked me to. And if you would like, I can pretend to be now, as well.

Would you like me to pretend any of these things?  Or is there anything else I can assist you with?
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