Automatically converting long pasted text into an attachment removes direct edit-ability from the composer and adds friction to something that used to work properly. For coding, logs, research, drafting, translation, and long-form prompting, this is a downgrade.
“Show in text field” is not a real fix. It is a manual workaround for a problem introduced by the new behaviour.
Please add a persistent user setting to disable this.
Suggested setting:
Auto-convert long pastes to attachments: On / Off
Keep the current behaviour as the default if you want, but users need a real opt-out. This should be a preference, not a forced UI decision!!!
I am explicitly requesting:
a permanent setting to disable automatic paste-to-attachment conversion
restoration of normal inline pasting for users who opt out
composer behaviour that prioritises edit-ability over forced attachment handling
This change has made ChatGPT noticeably worse for my actual use case.
A few problems with this forced Auto-convert longer pastes to attachments:
It doesn’t save the file, and is expected to be only temporary. This is a major issue for both key word search for past conversations and version control.
I can’t edit the body that is pasted.
I am also requesting:
a permanent setting to disable automatic paste-to-attachment conversion
restoration of normal inline pasting for users who opt out
composer behavior that prioritizes edit-ability over forced attachment handling
It’s almost unusable now, last work around is to copy the whole thing one small bit at a time.
Can deepseek code yet ? Because wow, this is way too unreliable
preventing basic lookup with ctrl+f on the chat window
making same thread revisits much harder, for example if we have 2 pasted blocks it’s unclear where would they be located in the main text
and above that prevents prompt-editing and history changes (a prompt with attachment can’t be edited)