Sometimes, responses given in ChatGPT disappear

I have observed a peculiar behavior with ChatGPT where messages that were previously written and appeared to be finalized can disappear upon exiting and re-entering the chat.

For example, I have engaged in extensive conversations and upon leaving and later returning to the chat, I notice that responses provided by ChatGPT several messages back, or even the most recent response, can be missing.

The messages that I have sent remain visible, but the corresponding responses from ChatGPT have vanished.

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I am experiencing the same issue. It mostly happens when using GPT-4.

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Same, same! I’ve been having this problem more and more frequently. In almost every long thread, at least one (often 2-3) ChatGPT-4 response is missing, usually in the middle of the convo. I can’t discern a pattern!

But it’s never at the beginning or end. And all my responses remain, so I KNOW I didn’t hallucinate the back-and-forth. :smirk:

It’s only ever after I reload the chat on a different day… but I use the long threads as reference docs while coding, so I REALLY need 'em to persist! :neutral_face:

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I had this happen in several GPT-4 conversations (via the ChatGPT GUI) in March too. Was anyone able to get OpenAI to restore their missing GPT-4 messages or are they gone forever? Was really hoping that OpenAI would acknowledge the issue and restore the missing messages (if possible).

What’s the fix! This consistently happens to me as well. What’s the point of paying for this?

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Me too. I Lost 2 Hours of my Work. This is really disappointing. I mean, the problem is always the cache. But whats about the servers? I mean doenst goes my words to the server? ANd doenst answers me the server? SO why the data disappears?

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If you find the answer to the point of paying for a service that is full of errors, network issues, forgotten data, and general frustration, please let me know!

same issue even with GPT-4o