Hello,
This may be a similar or related issue to those reported recently, like:
- ChatGPT unable to read/reference files put in project folder
- Project Files not working?
- Project files simply not working
- Did you lobotomize ChatGPT's ability to read project files or something?
- Project Files Not Recognized
- ChatGPT Project Files are not working at all
In my case, I’m not using a desktop app but the webapp, with Firefox 134, on macOS 15.2. I’m a ChatGPT Plus subscriber.
I have a new project. In Project files, I’ve uploaded only 1 file. It’s an HTML file. In the Project instructions, I instruct it to load this file and rewrite it’s text content based on the new content pasted in the new chat, and to give me the new HTML file to download. Without touching the HTML code of the file, only the inner text content of HTML elements.
It appears that the output HTML is totally altered. This is not the original file.
If I ask it to list the instructions and the file content, the instructions are correct and the file is listed correctly, with its correct filename. But if I ask for its original unaltered HTML code, it replies:
This is the authoritative source file. Here is the exact unaltered content of the HTML file:
And it’s actually totally not the unaltered original file.
So I suspect that while the file may be there in the Project, ChatGPT is hallucinating its content. Either at the moment it’s uploaded and stored on ChatGPT server, either when it’s being read from a new chat.
I have an intuition that the file is being corrupted / its content hallucinated, when uploaded. As when I retry with new chats, when I request the content of the file, it shows a consistent similar altered content across chats.
For now, the only workaround is to reupload the file with each new chat, which defeats the purpose of using Projects.