The Memory Trust Trap: When Recall Becomes Authority
Sleeper poisoning planted fabricated memories in up to 99.8% of attempts on GPT-5.5, so AI memory must prove it is current before it is obeyed.
Asif Waliuddin is the Founder and CEO of NXTG.ai, where he leads strategic initiatives in enterprise AI transformation.
Sleeper poisoning planted fabricated memories in up to 99.8% of attempts on GPT-5.5, so AI memory must prove it is current before it is obeyed.
KPMG pulled an AI report when only 5 of its 45 citations held up. The deeper failure is unverified AI output becoming trusted organizational memory.
Part 2 of my Jev test, pre-registered before the first call: up to five similar past records added to every prompt. Opus went from 23% to 73% on one routing question, and neither model showed a clear effect on another. Per class results for Jev, Claude Opus 5.5 and memory alone.
A pre-registered test of TypeSafe's Jev against Claude Opus 5.5 and a local Qwen3-14B on 340 decisions with known answers: accuracy, calibration, cost and speed, per class.
Faultline started as a four-day Kaggle entry with zero tests. Faultline Pro now has 4,887 counted tests. These are the failures that put them there.
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