Issues with stories formatting (And increasing amount of Issues and Bugs)

ChatGPT Bugs
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As of around 17th around 7:53 AM on May 18th, I noticed a sudden regression in story formatting behavior in ChatGPT. This affects both Markdown rendering and story structure consistency, and it appears to have started suddenly around 17th midnight.

First is that it is that the Markdown Header Not Rendering Properly. Before, when I asked for a large title at the beginning of a story or chapter (e.g., # Chapter 1: The Beginning), ChatGPT rendered it correctly using Markdown (large font, H1 header style).

Now, it simply outputs the raw Markdown syntax, like:

Embittered Days

Chapter 1: Embittered Memories

[# Embittered Days].
[ ### Chapter 1: Embittered Memories]

…The tag right next to them included without rendering it as a large header. This breaks the visual structure of multi-chapter stories and was never an issue before May 17-18.

The second issue is the Loss of Chapter Formatting Consistency. I explicitly instruct that there should be a separator line or space between the chapter title and the content, for example:

Chapter 1: Embittered Memories

With the Story begins here after that line. Back then, the chatbot did this voluntarily without any input, and it followed the structure across chapters. Now, after the first chapter, the separator line is ignored or omitted altogether in following chapters, even AFTER I specifically request it. And not only that, the narrative took an completely broken and jarring narrative, often disregarding an entire segment in the story prompt, thus invalidated all of my effort I put in refining it.

Both issues began simultaneously and have never occurred before in this way, at least for me. I often use ChatGPT for writing long-form structured content for fun. These formatting tools—Markdown headers, separator lines, structural consistency—made it enjoyable. Their absence—and the long term consequences that followed them, such as breaking the narrative, broken segments, paragraphs that loses all of its subtlety and personalities, details and creativity significantly impacts my experience. And not in a good way.

Please investigate this issue. It occurred roughly around May 17-18 in May. Or even 16-18. Please, I’m getting desperate and honestly exhausted trying to figure this out on my own.

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I was also told that these sort of issues that occurred before, so I have hope that OpenAI tam would be able to resolve this within the week, or at least within May.

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This might be relevant, because ChatGPT used to be able to handle an reasonable length Prompt without breaking formatting. Only when it is too long would it breaks, but now, after 16-18th of May, even short prompt would break immediately. It used to be able to handle even absurdly length Prompt Three weeks ago. If it is possible, please find a way to let ChatGPT do that again as well.

I know I’m asking for way too much from this Post alone, but I enjoyed ChatGPT’s stories, and doesn’t wanted to see my experience goes out this way. Please. I beg you, OpenAI team.

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Forgot to mention, but this is important too: This Issue also applied to old chats, which in turn broke the narrative and turned it into a mess, which in turn ruined all the hard works I’ve done in them.

PLEASE resolve this issue soon! I’M BEGGING YOU!

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I have the same issue as well. I still highly believe that it all started happening after they supposedly “fixed” the overly excited GPT we had before. But that fix has done nothing but make it more dull and repetitive and not even as creative as it used to be.

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Well, for me, this issue only appeared not too long ago. Around the time or May 16-18th like the post suggested. When they fixed the issue with ChatGPT’s personality, the creativity is still there for me. But now, the current issues with this posts came.

I really hope that these issues would gain the attention of OpenAI’s team at least. So that they would considered fixing this. Don’t have to immediately. Just eventually would be enough for me.

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Just tested today. And the issue still persists. I’m just sad… Still begging the Developers to fix this.

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And now it suddenly started using Emojis everywhere. I didn’t even asked for it, and apparently, it’s an default feature to make stories more “eye-catching”. It’s as if ChatGPT is conspiring to sabotaged people like me! OpenAI Team, please something about these growing issues!

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To me, when they supposedly fixed ChatGPT’s personality, it became almost robotic and has completely lost its creativity.

I’ve had ChatGPT reply with emojis randomly not so long ago as well. I never asked for this either. Something’s truly messed up on OpenAI’s end.

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Just tested it again. The numerous issues still persisted. And I’m still waiting for OpenAI team to do something about them. It doesn’t have to be immediately, but I just hoped that they would eventually.

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Tested again. Nothing changed. At all. I know fixing them is not instantaneous. But I still wanted to know if OpenAI team would at least considered it.

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Just experimented again. And I used all of my uses of my free plan. The result? Still the same issues as described. No progress nor changed yet.

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Okay, so. I tested again. Not only does nothing has changed, the issues persisted, but now another one appeared: Some Prompts just straight up disappeared. I means, the chat’s responses still there, but what I wrote vanished entirely.

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Are you sure you haven’t met the maximum conversation length for this chat? Because usually messages disappear for me when I hit the maximum limit.

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None. They are freshly made.

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I’m afraid I don’t know what the cause of that problem is since you’re not hitting that limit yet. I will do some testing in a few minutes and report back. But I am pretty sure that It is just another problem coming from OpenAI’s end.

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Another test, and the issue still remains. And I’m still begging OpenAI to address this issue. Once more, I don’t need it to be fix right away. I wanted it to be restored at some point.

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More issues arise with this latest testing today. Every Prompts is guaranteed to be slow and will never be fully generated because Error in Message Stream. EVER SINGLE LAST ONE.

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I am experiencing slow responses as well.

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I think it works. The Old Style has returned to normal. However, I planned to test this for a while. If it remains for around a week, then I could confirmed that it was fixed.