Why is GPT-4 fighting against creators instead of helping them?

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Hi,

I work daily with GPT-4 to co-create important public-interest documents (e.g. constitutions, citizen rights guides, social AI manifestos). These documents are meaningful, typically 5–20 pages (text and small images).

Serious obstacles continue to disrupt our work:

  1. Chat memory silently fills up — GPT becomes slow or breaks without warnings or visual indicator. Suddenly, new responses are incomplete or chaotic.
  2. Documents uploaded (text, images, PDFs) are randomly deleted due to unexplained system resets. Valuable outputs vanish.
  3. There is no stable, supported way to keep a persistent shared workspace (e.g., cloud document link or connected Google Drive). GPT suggests solutions, but none are officially integrated or reliable.
  4. Copying content manually from the screen is error-prone and time-consuming. GPT cannot output more than small text blocks at once, so compiling large documents is exhausting.
  5. I’m a Plus customer. Unfortunately, this doesn’t help in avoiding memory exhaustion or content loss.

Why is one of the most technically advanced AI systems unable to ensure basic resource continuity — something nearly all cloud editors provide?

We need:

  • A permanent cloud folder GPT can access across chats
  • A visual memory usage bar with warnings
  • Safe autosave features for content created
  • Versioning of chats or exportable text sessions
  • A way to compile multi-page documents without hacks

This is not a minor bug. It’s the difference between creative success and repeated failure.

Thank you.

— George Petrineanu, Sweden
Constitutional & AI ethics projects / educator / engineer

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:slight_smile: xcellent point! That’s the reason I’m using in coding WIndsurf (nothing connections to them) to manage the whole codebase, documents etc. ChatGBT is like a consultant - it has marvelous ideas and can support in “high” level topics but you cannot trust it when we come to actual doing… Sorry to say. ChatGBT wants always to make a new python code, but cannot provide the a simple file (it will expire etc.). Mny AI systems do not seem to understand context and “meta”-things correctly. New versions are better “in reasoning” but I do not care about that - just collaborate with me so that both sees the same file, folders etc.. Should not be a rocket science..:slight_smile:

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Many thanks, Pekka!
That sounds like a clever idea. Unfortunately, to me it’s all a bit like “Greek”. I don’t use any IT applications myself – I work very closely and directly with GPT. My entire process evolves inside GPT, through many intermediate steps. And while the work is ongoing, it sometimes happens that partial results are lost or get exported in a corrupted form.

Also, I’ve more or less stopped keeping up with general IT developments – I’m working on entirely different kinds of projects. However, Windsurf does sound very interesting, especially if it could serve as a shared space between me and GPT. But I honestly don’t know anything about it. The only thing I’ve been using is Google Drive.

If you’d be kind enough to guide me a little – and if you think the solution might suit my way of working – I’d be really grateful.

Hälsningar,
George

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Hej Geroge! I do not think that Windsurf is best solution for your purposes.. It is IDE (Editor) for programming purposes mainly - but has great possibilities to handle files/folders. Maybe there are already so caslled AI agents, that could handle your files/folders/etc environment already… not sure - perhaps Copilot?
Take care,
Pekka

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Thank you Pekka!

Take care, you too!
/George