[ AI ][ MEMORY ][ NOUN ]
Deliberately or accidentally corrupting an agent's stored long-term memory so its future behavior is subtly and persistently wrong, distinct from context poisoning by affecting permanent memory rather than one session's working context.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"One bad memory entry poisoned every session after that, the agent kept repeating the same wrong assumption for weeks."
LORE & ORIGIN
Extends 'context-poisoning' up a level to permanent memory stores, borrowing the same security-poisoning language once agents started keeping memory across sessions.
FIRST SEEN
2025
PEAK POPULARITY
2025-2026 (Emerging)
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Slang
Related To:Context PoisoningMemory Topology
EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
中文 zh-CN记忆污染EQUIVALENTliterally 'memory pollution' - 记忆 = native 'memory', 污染 = native 'pollution/poisoning', direct calque mirroring the established 上下文污染 pattern
日本語 ja-JPメモリ汚染EQUIVALENTliterally 'memory pollution' - メモリ = borrowed 'memory', 汚染 = native 'pollution'
한국어 ko-KR메모리 오염EQUIVALENTliterally 'memory pollution' - direct calque
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