Markdown in the chat window is completely breaking outgoing prompts and making gpt completely unusable for basic tasks

ChatGPT Bugs
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When you type to GPT it doesn’t work anymore. If I want to ask gpt about a mathematical question involving asterisks (*) for multiplication, especially say probability or formulae, markdown will mangle the formatting and replace the asterisks with bold.

Before I was able to do triple ` to put code blocks for anything I didn’t want to have modified before I pasted something, and then the same afterwards. Now that doesn’t work. The first one opens a block on THIS line including what I already typed and then what I paste goes out of the formatting. It makes it incredibly slow and broken to use gpt. even if you use ctrl shift v to paste without formatting it will break everything you write. Markdown should be optional, it’s completely breaking productivity for no reason, I will just stop using gpt if this continues it’s the first time a change has made it completely unusable. I spend 10 minutes every prompt just un-breaking the formatting that markdown breaks.

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I created an account for this. I hope this post gets the exposure it needs for devs to add a toggle against autoformatting.

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I actually can’t believe there aren’t 500 “me toos” on the post. You literally can’t even type a sum like 5 x 4 x 3 anymore with asterisks (even on the forum here) because it gets eaten. there really aren’t people asking gpt to do arithmetic? I have no idea why anyone would even want to send italic text to an LLM. and the LLM appears to receive it in plaintext so it’s just obfuscating what the LLM is actually seeing

even if you do \ it doesn’t escape. if I do 3\*5 even here on this forum it doesn’t become an unitalicised asterisk. so it doesn’t even follow proper markdown… this feature needs to be removed, probably as the DEFAULT OPTION but definitely as a tick box somewhere at minimum