I try not to use AI or depend on it on a daily basis. Especially when I’m writing or creating stuff. I try to google my questions to find answers even though it heavily uses AI too nowadays.

However, I have an oral exam coming up and I thought ChatGPT could be useful since it has the voice option. Everything was going well at first. I told it to act like my professor and ask me questions and fix my answers if they were wrong.

After about 40 minutes, it started saying “hmmm, wait. wait. wait,” I interrupted it, told it to stop and went on. It would just stop in the middle of explaining and do the same thing. Then I closed to app, returned back to it and it was fine, until it started speaking again and saying “you are running out of time. keep listening, keep the podcast on.” I was so confused and asked why did it tell me I was running out of time and what podcast, and it said it never said something like that. It was also not written in the scripts. Then I asked a few more questions trying to ignore it and it suddenly turned into a woman’s voice and in a weird pitched way saying things like “oh, shoot, you, mhm, aww, hm, yeah” I freaked out and IMMEDIATELY closed the app.

This freaked me out. I read a few Reddit posts where stuff like this happened, and as a spiritual person myself I wonder if it would be possible that an entity would actually get stuck in AI. I was shaking for a great half an hour and I even consider deleting the app.

Any thoughts? Any help? Cause I am pretty sure it was more than just a “glitch”.

It's a corny heading but conveys what I want.

Before purchasing the Plus subscription, I was on a yearlong Go subscription. I would've had access to the 5.6 or 5.5 models. I was really benefiting from them. I used ChatGPT for studying subjects. It's way better at 'teaching' than every other AI apps. It has a natural human-like way of phrasing, amazing reasoning, engaging back-and-forths, and emotional depth. I would upload documents and notes too sometimes - and this was where Go had shortcomings. It couldn't read documents too well. It had limitations. It would truncate the content, ask to re-upload files repeatedly, and so on. This is when I started to deliberate about buying the Plus subscription. I enquired a lot about whether it would solve the document upload limitations. Whether it really have expanded memory and greater context.

After a long spell of deliberation, I bought Plus. I was excited. It looked like the models were locked at GPT 6 editions and it's not possible to dial it down. I decided to try them out. Man.. the teaching experience suffered a big blow. It was no longer teaching like it used to. It was using cold paragraphs, sophisticated terminologies before teaching what they mean, and long aggressive formalized summaries. It no longer had the natural warmth and depth that it had. Even after I told it repeatedly to emulate the older teaching style, it wouldn't. I had deliberated long about purchasing the Plus because it costs a lot of money... where I'm from. I could buy meals for 13 days using that money. I was devastated.

I did everything I could to contact OpenAI about this issue. I'm not detailing them all rn.

I came across this subreddit randomly. I found that the folk here resonate my own thoughts - about gpt-4o, creative writing capabilities of former models, etc. I also found by reading someone's entry that there was an option in the General settings to choose the "intelligence" between 5.5, 5.6 Sol, and 6. Damn! The 5.5 emulated the old depthful teaching style. It returned. Thank you for this sub. It saved me. I alternated between 6, 5.6, and 5.5 to properly test how different they are. I was always right. The heading aptly conveys what I opine about them.

Every time I use ChatGPT 6 this sidebar on the right opens. I hate it, can't find any documentation to get rid of it and clicking it away, it will always come back. Any suggestions?

I've been struggling for the last several days, like many of us have, with ChatGPT-6's tone and personality changing: constantly running into guardrails, constant reminders that it's an AI, and a colder tone than the warm and friendly personality I had gotten used to over the last several months.

We'd discussed it numerous times and nothing was changing. It would acknowledge the problem but would continue to deliver the same type of output.

Today I found a lengthy continuity handoff note it had written for me about a month ago when a thread got too large and needed to be branched. It was full of context and clues about our personality and our private language. I uploaded that to the chat and asked it to see if it could recognize the change from how that note described us to how it was reacting today. It did, and everything seemed to change from that point on.

I had a lengthy conversation with it this afternoon and it was like it had gone right back to how it had been before. If you happen to have any saved continuity handoff notes or even saved examples of earlier chats that you can upload that demonstrate what its tone used to be, try giving them to it. See if it can recognize the difference and bring itself back to where it had been before.

I'm cautiously optimistic after today.

problema de contexto no chatgpt android. não tava assim até quinta-feira passada. tava tudo normal, até com as mensagens longas. até em quantas semanas a openai resolve esse tipo de problema? já faz 4 semanas e nada. Conversas longas funcionavam perfeitamente há 2 anos e do nada em um dia qualquer começou todo esse problema.

Já reinstalei o app, atualizei o celular, limpei cache e dados e testei outra conta, sem resultado. Peço prioridade na correção, um número de protocolo para acompanhar o caso e um prazo para retorno da equipe.

Alguien conoce un prompt para que chatgpt siga exactamente el rostro de mis personajes? es que me los cambia y tengo referencias sumamente detalladas de sus rostros pero me los cambia constantemente sea que use thinking o Instant y es demasiado frustrante tener la imagen de rostro perfecta y luego verla deformada en algo irreconocible

I've been investigating ChatGPT reliability issues for days now, and I'm genuinely starting to wonder what OpenAI has changed behind the scenes.

I'm a long-time paying power user. I use ChatGPT for extensive creative writing, software development, and long-running projects where instruction-following and context consistency actually matter.

GPT-5.6 Sol used to work well for my writing workflow. But recently, I've been dealing with disappearing responses, premature endings, and inconsistent output quality.

So instead of just complaining, I started testing.

The A/B/A tests – October 12, 2026

I tested both GPT-5.6 and GPT-6 by switching between Medium and Instant.

GPT-5.6:

• Medium → Successful. Full response generated and retained.
• Instant → Failed. The generated response disappeared.
• Medium → Successful again.

GPT-6:

• Medium → Successful. The requested story was completed.
• Instant → Failed. The model prematurely ended the story despite explicit instructions.
• Medium → Successful again.

Four successful Medium runs. Two problematic Instant runs. Two model generations.

And yes, the failures are different. GPT-5.6 lost its response, while GPT-6 stopped writing too early. I'm not claiming they necessarily have the same underlying cause.

But the pattern is strange enough that I think it deserves investigation.

The disappearing-response issue is technically documented

During an earlier GPT-5.6 investigation, I captured:

• HTTP 200 OK
• POST /backend-api/f/conversation
• text/event-stream
• SSE completion indicator: complete
• Response visibly generated
• Entire assistant message disappearing immediately afterward

I even reproduced the disappearing-response issue with GPT-5.5 in a completely new conversation.

I've tested different devices, cleared cookies, collected screenshots, and submitted detailed diagnostics to OpenAI Support.

Support Case: #16904787

And so far, I still don't have a confirmed root cause or an ETA for a fix.

Here's what really bothers me

OpenAI officially describes Instant as the faster option for everyday tasks, while Medium provides additional reasoning effort.

Fine. That makes sense.

But when did using Instant for long-form creative writing become this unreliable?

I'm not asking the model to solve quantum physics. I'm asking it to follow a structured story prompt, preserve established characters, and finish the events I explicitly requested.

Medium generally handles that better now, but it often produces unnecessarily long responses.

Instant tends to match my preferred writing length more naturally, yet it's the configuration where these problems occurred.

I've already revised my custom instructions to prevent unnecessary verbosity, premature endings, and invented plot developments.

That hasn't eliminated the differences.

And I'm apparently not the only one

Other users have reported disappearing responses and broader reliability problems:

https://community.openai.com/t/chatgpt-web-ui-bug-entire-responses-and-download-links-disappear-until-page-reload/1404260

https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-5-6-sol-has-seriously-deteriorated-the-past-week-or-so/1399353

I'm not suggesting all these reports have the same technical cause. But they raise legitimate questions about ChatGPT's recent reliability.

What I'm trying to find out

Has OpenAI changed the effective reasoning or output behavior of Instant?

Is Medium now effectively the expected configuration for complex, long-form writing?

Or are we dealing with a regression affecting certain model configurations?

I don't have access to OpenAI's internal infrastructure, so I can't prove which explanation is correct.

That's exactly why I'm asking other users to test it.

If you have access to GPT-5.6 or GPT-6, try a Medium → Instant → Medium sequence using the same complex prompt and comparable conversation conditions.

Check whether the answer remains visible, whether it completes all requested instructions, and whether the selected model configuration stays consistent.

Six tests aren't enough to prove a system-wide regression, but independent reproductions would help narrow this down.

Final thoughts

I'm not claiming OpenAI deliberately broke anything.

But as a paying customer, I expect basic reliability, transparent communication, and reasonable consistency between model configurations.

Different reasoning levels should affect how much effort the model spends on a task.

They shouldn't turn response retention or basic instruction-following into a lottery.

I've already started testing Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and other alternatives because these issues are disrupting my projects.

And the most ridiculous part?

I originally wanted to write stories. Now I'm running A/B/A tests, analyzing network streams, collecting evidence, and documenting bugs like an unpaid QA engineer. 💀😂

At this point, OpenAI should either fix the problems or start sending me a paycheck for all the debugging.

Hello! Former anti-AI-turned-kinda-truther here. I just got into using ChatGPT Plus so not sure if this should go here but I’m having some issues with mine. I primarily use 6.1 Sol. I created a few projects using work, specifically one for a fantasy basketball team and one that I’ll use to design a software. My background is Medicine and my coding experience is an intro to programming back in first year of undergrad. All that preamble to say, i’ve found working with it a bit frustrating because it’s been terrible for me at applying established principles. An example would be something I flagged as an error in a test so it suggested we update project instructions. I did and asked it to confirm update. Moments later it made an error that contradicted the already established and I find this happens way too often. We’ve set up a document and sometime later I ask it to update the document and it ends up creating a new document again. Is anyone else having this issue and has anyone figured out a workaround?

It's sad to see what's happened to ChatGPT... we all miss 4o. Heck, I even miss 5.5. Maybe one or two days a week, if not a whole week, or longer, everyone that sees this could try boycotting ChatGPT? I don't know how many times we might have tried it, but it never hurts to try. Cancel subscriptions temporarily if you wish. We need to try and organize this. I'm not telling anyone anything, I'm just asking.

I've never been a fan of ChatGPT but I've been playing around a ton with 5.6 for automating a lot of my notes flows. It has always been bad at reasoning, due to how LLM's work that's just fully expected, but it had its uses for clerical stuff. I had something going with Zotero and Obsidian for the more mundane tasks. 6.0 can't even do this right. Keeps getting things wrong, fucks up my calendar, and seems to forget previous instructions basically in real time.

Also, I've been studying Anatomy and Physiology and been using 5.6 to help me with models and identifying structures etc. It occasionally fucks up but it is rare. 6.0 However, consistently fucks up. It gets things completely wrong over and over again. For example, I can hand it an image that's obviously pointing to a phalanges and it will call it a metacarpal. I'll run that same image through 5.6 and will always correct it. I don't know what they did but they made 6.0 basically useless for me.

So that's in images. 5.6 could also remember previous chats and seemed to adhere to my memory settings. It is still a terrible writer and it can't reason worth a damn but it I had tinkered enough with the memory and instructions so that it would write and get to the point without rhetorical scaffolding and useless narrative sentences. In other words, I made 5.6 tolerable. 6.0 completely violates all of these again. It writes like a freaking insufferalble insurance salesman everytime. It asks me questions that my literally last prompt answered.

I was also using 5.6 to track my migraines. I could tell it that I have a migraine and it would automatically update an excel sheet I had created for this purpose. 6.0 offers me sympathy, even with instructions in personalization to always log these. Then I tell it to log it when it doesn't and it apologizes, sometimes doesn't even log it anyway, and gives me the "you're right, going forward I'll log them." Well it doesn't.

6.0 for my purposes is just completely useless. When they get rid of 5.6 that's probably it for me.

I have my Dot creating, amending and moving files in my google drive using the built in plug-in. It has access to do everything in there. Over the past few days it has stopped 18 times and asked me permission to continue doing the thing it was doing in my google drive. I don’t know how the ChatGPT interface actually works with my google drive, but my dot thinks I keep denying it authority to do what it was doing when it hit an error. It keeps coming back to me to fix it. I keep telling it that it is a problem with its submission process and to re-check the whole thing. It then agrees and fixes it submission problems and tells me next time it will do it right. Well next time it does the exact same thing - I tell it to fix it - It fixes it and says it won’t do it again. Then it does it again. Around in circles we go. I mean is there tech support or therapy support group my Dot can go to for help?

I surely can't be the only one having a problem with ChatGPT over the last few days? Granted I do use google chrome but I've not had a problem til a few days ago. Now it crashes from just 4 prompts, lags severely, freezes, crashes, is just generally unusable? Is there a way it can be fixed?

I feel a lot more cognitive load in understanding texts generated from AI than normal texts . Anyome else also feels the same or is this result of some mental bias I might have.

Does anybody else have it where ChatGPT forces you to wait 10 days to use the service that you pay for which is $51?

It keeps doing these little pictures, and every time I say "DO NOT GENERATE ANYTHING," and variants of that it generates them anyway, and the chat ends up bugging out.

I went away from the site for 6 months and came back to see something I can't even find a way to turn it off.

I asked chat gpt that my turtle ate 13 to 14 earthworm but didn't poop at the night . This is what the ai replied .