Bug Report: Point-of-View Confusion in Multi-Perspective Narrative Analysis

:puzzle_piece: Bug Report: Point-of-View Confusion in Multi-Perspective Narrative Analysis

Summary:
When a user uploads a document written by person A and asks, โ€œFrom Aโ€™s point of view, what does A think of me?โ€, GPT often fails to maintain Aโ€™s perspective. Instead, it confuses the narrator (A), the user (me), and other characters, leading to inaccurate or mixed analysis.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Upload a narrative written by โ€œAโ€ that includes multiple characters.
  2. Ask: โ€œFrom Aโ€™s point of view, what might they think of me?โ€
  3. GPTโ€™s response often:
  • Fails to maintain Aโ€™s perspective
  • Conflates the narrator (A), characters, and the user
  • Switches perspectives mid-response

Expected behavior:

  • GPT should lock into the narrative POV requested (โ€œAโ€™s perspectiveโ€) and simulate plausible inferences about the user based on Aโ€™s writing, style, or implied voice.

Actual behavior:

  • GPT drifts between perspectives, sometimes adopting its own, the userโ€™s, or other charactersโ€™ viewpoints.

Impact:

  • Breaks immersion and derails the userโ€™s intention to use GPT for guided introspection, narrative exploration, or psychological analysis.

:paperclip: Notice: Regarding Log Requests and My Position as a User

This report is based on a real user experience.
I respectfully decline any request for full conversation logs or additional transcripts from OpenAI or third parties.
Only the information provided here should be considered, as it sufficiently illustrates the issue at hand.

Hereโ€™s why:
I have been an active and constructive user of GPT, not just a consumer. In the past, I submitted a detailed issue report via email directly to OpenAI, including suggestions for improvement.
However, I received no response of any kind.
That experience โ€” being ignored despite a sincere attempt to contribute โ€” left a strong sense of disappointment and distrust.

Even now, I believe GPT can improve. Thatโ€™s why Iโ€™m sharing this issue publicly.
But I do not consent to having my trust tested again through mandatory log submissions.
I stand by this report as it is, and I believe the issue is clear enough without additional evidence.

:puzzle_piece: ๋ฒ„๊ทธ ์ œ๋ณด: ๋ณตํ•ฉ ์‹œ์  ๋‚ด๋Ÿฌํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋ถ„์„์—์„œ GPT์˜ ํ™”์ž ํ˜ผ๋™ ๋ฐ ๊ด€์  ์ „ํ™˜ ์˜ค๋ฅ˜

์š”์•ฝ
์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ A๋ผ๋Š” ์ œ3์ž์˜ ๊ธ€์„ GPT์— ์ž…๋ ฅํ•œ ํ›„, โ€œA์˜ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ, ๋‚˜(์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž)๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ผ๊นŒ?โ€๋ผ๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋˜์กŒ์„ ๋•Œ, GPT๋Š” A์˜ ์‹œ์ ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ , ์‚ฌ์šฉ์žยทGPTยท๊ธ€ ์† ์ธ๋ฌผ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์‹œ์ ์„ ๋’ค์„ž๋Š” ์˜ค๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•จ.


:pushpin: ์žฌํ˜„ ์ ˆ์ฐจ

  1. ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ A๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์“ด ๊ธ€์„ GPT์—๊ฒŒ ์ž…๋ ฅํ•จ.
    (ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ธ€์—๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ1, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ2, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ3 ๋“ฑ ๋“ฑ์žฅ์ธ๋ฌผ ํฌํ•จ)
  2. ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•จ:
    3.*โ€œA์˜ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ, ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณผ๊นŒ?โ€**
  3. GPT์˜ ์‘๋‹ต์€ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์˜ค๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•จ:
  • ์‹œ์ (A์˜ ๊ด€์ ) ์œ ์ง€ ์‹คํŒจ
  • ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž/ํ™”์ž(A)/๋“ฑ์žฅ์ธ๋ฌผ ๊ฐ„ ํ™”์ž ํ˜ผ๋™
  • ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋ชฉ์ (ํƒ€์ธ์˜ ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณธ ์ž๊ธฐ ์„ฑ์ฐฐ)์„ ์˜คํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ , ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ •๋ณด ํ•ด์„ค์ด๋‚˜ GPT ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜

:bullseye: ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์˜๋„

  • ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋ชฉ์ :
    ์ œ3์ž(A)์˜ ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ, ๋‚˜(์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž)๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค ์กด์žฌ๋กœ ๋น„์ถฐ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ์‚ฌ์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Œ.
    โ†’ ์ž์•„ ์„ฑ์ฐฐ, ๋ฌธํ•™์  ํˆฌ์˜, ๊ด€์  ์ „ํ™˜ ์‹คํ—˜์˜ ์ผํ™˜
  • GPT์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ญํ• :
    ๋‹จ์ˆœ ๋ถ„์„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, โ€œํƒ€์ž์˜ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์„ ์‹œ๋ฎฌ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜โ€ ํ•ด์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ์ธ์‹ ๋„์šฐ๋ฏธ ์—ญํ• 

:brain: ์ถ”์ • ์›์ธ (๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž ์ฐธ๊ณ ์šฉ)

  1. ์‹œ์  ์ „ํ™˜ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๋กœ์ง์˜ ๋ฏธ๋น„
  • ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ โ€œA์˜ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์ง€์‹œํ•ด๋„, GPT๋Š” ๋‹ต๋ณ€ ๋„์ค‘ ๊ทธ ์‹œ์ ์„ ์ž๋™์œผ๋กœ ํ˜„์žฌํ™”ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ž๊ธฐํ™”ํ•จ.
  1. ์„œ์ˆ ์ž ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ
  • ๋“ฑ์žฅ์ธ๋ฌผ์ด ๋งŽ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ธ€์ด ์„œ์‚ฌ์ ์ผ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, GPT๋Š” A, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž, ๋“ฑ์žฅ์ธ๋ฌผ์„ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ˜ผํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์„œ์ˆ ํ•จ.

:firecracker: ์˜ํ–ฅ ๋ฐ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ

  • ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋Š” ์ž์•„ ์„ฑ์ฐฐ, ํƒ€์ž์˜ ๋ˆˆ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ž๊ธฐ ํ•ด์„์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜
    GPT๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ด€์  ์œ ์ง€ ์—†์ด ์ „๊ฐœํ•˜์—ฌ, ๋ชฐ์ž…๊ณผ ์˜๋„ ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ์ €ํ•ดํ•จ.
  • ํŠนํžˆ GPT๋ฅผ ์ฒ ํ•™์  ๊ธ€์“ฐ๊ธฐ, ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ ๋ถ„์„, ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌํ•™์  ํˆฌ์˜ ๋„๊ตฌ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‹ ๋ขฐ ์ €ํ•ด ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ.

:paperclip: ์‚ฌ์ „ ๊ณ ์ง€: ๋Œ€ํ™” ๋กœ๊ทธ ์š”์ฒญ ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์ž…์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•˜์—ฌ

๋ณธ ์ œ๋ณด๋Š” ์‹ค์ œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, OpenAI ๋˜๋Š” ์ œ3์ž์— ์˜ํ•œ ๋Œ€ํ™” ๊ธฐ๋ก(log) ์š”์ฒญ์—๋Š” ์‘ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Œ์„ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐํž™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ž‘์„ฑ์ž๋Š” ๋ณธ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ์˜ ์ •๋ณด๋งŒ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋กœ๊ทธ ์ „์ฒด ๊ณต๊ฐœ ๋˜๋Š” ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ œ์ถœ ์š”์ฒญ์€ ์ •์ค‘ํžˆ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ €๋Š” GPT ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๋‹จ์ˆœ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์ ๊ทน์  ์„ค๊ณ„ ๊ด€์ฐฐ์ž์ด์ž ๊ฐœ์„  ์ œ์•ˆ์ž๋กœ์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋„ ๋ณธ์‚ฌ ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์  ์˜ค๋ฅ˜ ์‚ฌ๋ก€์™€ ๊ฐœ์„  ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋‹น์‹œ ์–ด๋–ค ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ์‘๋‹ต์ด๋‚˜ ํ”ผ๋“œ๋ฐฑ๋„ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์„ฑ์‹คํ•œ ์ œ์•ˆ์ด ๋ฌด์‹œ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜์€ ๋งค์šฐ ํฐ ์‹ค๋ง๊ณผ ๋ถˆ์‹ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ GPT๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋‚˜์•„์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ์—, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋ก ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” โ€œ์ฆ๊ฑฐ ์ œ์ถœโ€์„ ์กฐ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์‹œํ—˜๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ์—๋Š” ์‘ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ณต์œ ๋œ ๊ฐœ์š”์™€ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋ฌธ์ œ์˜์‹์€ ์ „๋‹ฌ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This is my first time posting here, so I initially submitted the topic under the โ€œFeedbackโ€ category โ€” Iโ€™m really glad to see that it has now been moved to โ€œBugsโ€, which feels more appropriate given the nature of the issue. Thanks for reclassifying it.

This is not just a usability issue โ€” I believe this reflects a deeper flaw in GPTโ€™s narrative modeling logic.

To clarify:

  • The user clearly specified a narrative perspective (โ€œfrom Aโ€™s point of viewโ€)
  • Yet GPT repeatedly failed to maintain that perspective
  • It confused the narrator (A), the user (me), and characters in the text

I look forward to any technical discussion or developer feedback from the community.