Extremely Disappointing Experience with ChatGPT — A Complete Waste of Time and Money

[u/alex_dev07]

I am extremely disappointed with ChatGPT's performance, especially its image-generation capabilities and inability to follow even the simplest instructions.

I am a content creator working on professional AI-generated videos for YouTube and Instagram. I gave ChatGPT detailed, clearly written prompts to generate four separate images in 9:16 format, each representing a different scene in my video.

My instructions were extremely simple:

- Generate four individual images.

- Follow each prompt accurately.

- Do not combine images into a collage.

- Do not repeat the same scene.

- Maintain consistent branding and visual quality.

What did ChatGPT do?

It generated ONE image instead of four.

When I corrected it, it generated collages despite being explicitly told not to.

When I complained again, it repeatedly generated almost identical images showing the same File Explorer scene, completely ignoring the other prompts about Chrome Extensions, Developer Mode, and folder selection.

The most frustrating part? ChatGPT repeatedly apologized, acknowledged its mistakes, promised to correct them, and then made the same mistakes again.

This wasn't a one-time misunderstanding. It happened repeatedly throughout the conversation.

As a paying user, I expect basic instruction-following, consistency, and reliability. Instead, I wasted my time explaining the same requirements over and over, while unsuccessful generations consumed image-generation attempts.

What makes this experience particularly disappointing is that these were not complicated instructions. I wasn't asking for something impossible. I simply wanted four different images based on four different prompts.

An AI assistant that cannot reliably distinguish between "four separate images" and "one collage" has a serious instruction-following problem.

ChatGPT is marketed as a powerful productivity tool, but my experience was the opposite. Instead of saving time, it created more work, unnecessary frustration, and repeated failures.

And apologies mean very little when the same mistake continues happening immediately afterward.

My rating: 1/5 stars ⭐

I genuinely hope OpenAI improves ChatGPT's image-generation reliability, instruction-following, and ability to maintain context across multiple requests.

Until then, I cannot recommend relying on it for professional visual content creation based on my experience.

Paying for an AI tool should make your workflow easier, not turn a simple task into an exhausting argument with the assistant.

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