Images in projects are not readable by ChatGPT

I uploaded images to a project in hopes that I can have the AI use it as reference. However, asking about it, ChatGPT is aware of it, the filename is correct, however it can’t seem to open it or get context from it, like it can from text based files. It only produces hallucinations.
Images uploaded during conversation works fine, but images from the project do not.

I tried png, jpg, the contents of it is a simple cat. I tried 4o, o1, and 4.5, neither seemed to see the image correctly. I tried suggesting to use analysis, and somehow it managed to copy the image into the conversation, after which it could describe it, but asked to analyse it without copying to the project, and it hallucinated. The fact that it managed to copy the image proves that the upload is intact, however it couldn’t do anything with it.

It’s worth noting, that there isn’t a thumbnail generated for the image either in the list of files, but I remember when I first uploaded an image months ago, it had created a thumbnail for it. So this tells me something broke in the meantime.

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I’m experiencing the same thing. ChatGPT seems aware they exist, will respond with some analysis if I ask about it. It doesn’t get the details when generating images, though. No point in having that list of uploaded images.

Hi, welcome to the community!

This is my test:

Step 1: Add an instruction

When a user asks to analyze uploaded content (including files or images), send the relevant file(s) to python. All analysis should be executed in the stateful Jupyter notebook environment. Use python for data processing, computation, or image analysis tasks involving user-uploaded files.

Step 2: Upload images

I uploaded following images:


Step 3: Chatting

General view:

Output of Chat 1:

Output of Chat 2:

I’m seeing the same issue. It sees the file names, but completely hallucinates the contents.

Hi, welcome to the community!

Have you tried the prompt above I shared?
It works for me well.
Please check the images I uploaded and its responds.