ChatGPT makes files I can't access

Environment

  • Surface: Web + Android
  • Attempted on: ChatGPT App; Firefox; Chrome
  • GPT 6 thinking set to “High”

Bug

What happened, and what did you expect?

Reproduction

After asking ChatGPT to edit and in another case make a Tampermonkey userscript for me, it keeps making files that have the right extension (.user.js), but which I can neither read (says it failed to load) nor download. Just keeps saying “Failed to Download. Try again later.”
Trying again at different times has made no difference.
I have tried regenerating the response, also no change.
I have tried from different browsers and platforms (my PC and from my phone)

Responses have taken several minutes to complete, so I can only assume it’s doing something, but I don’t actually know. I have no idea if it’s just generating an empty or corrupt file, or if it’s generating proper code and I am unable to open it for some unknown reason.

I have sent a bug report as well but have not heard back nor has it gotten any better.

What on earth am I paying for if I can ask it to make something but can’t actually access it? Seems like a waste of resources on both ends!

Diagnostics

Exact error or screenshot:

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When it happened (with timezone) and how often: All the time (UTC +0)