Earlier when I used to be tired but curious, I used to talk to the voice feature of chatgpt asking questions and it used to understand my English completely.

Now, it doesn't understand anything and interprets totally useless things.

Also, it tries to act like a human by constantly interrupting with hmm, i see like filler words which is really not a good experience.

I’m experiencing an extremely frustrating issue with ChatGPT. The voice I normally use is female, and it has become part of how I use ChatGPT every day and in my projects. However, suddenly, the Read Aloud feature started reading responses using a male voice, regardless of the female voice I have selected in the settings.
Voice Mode still uses the correct female voice. The problem specifically affects Read Aloud.
I’ve already tried changing the voice settings, restarting the app, and testing it through the browser. I’ve also tested this with accounts/devices belonging to friends and family members, and they are experiencing the same behavior.
I consider this unacceptable for a paid service, especially because voice consistency can become an important part of long-term projects and established workflows. A voice that users have become accustomed to should not suddenly be replaced without giving them an option to choose or restore it.
I really like ChatGPT and have built a significant part of my workflow around it, but this issue is frustrating enough that I’m seriously considering moving my projects to Claude or another platform if it isn’t fixed.
OpenAI needs to investigate and fix this as soon as possible, or at the very least give users an explicit option to select which voice is used by Read Aloud.
Is anyone else experiencing exactly the same issue today?

I’m trying to get ChatGPT to review an email campaign, but it keeps saying there’s no attachment or image in my message after I upload one.

At one point, it found an older document in the project files and reviewed that. When I tried uploading the correct version, it still couldn’t see it.

I’m using ChatGPT Plus on desktop. Has anyone else run into this with documents and images? Any workaround?

Do you believe that Chatgpt deletes all chats and data after 30 days ?

If

- Trainingsdata were off

- Pictures are deleted

- Chats are deleted

If not, what else did I miss to delete?

Sometimes, when a patient arrives in the resuscitation room complaining of chest pain, I note down details such as their age, gender, the specific characteristics of the chest pain—including its timing—and their medical history. I then input this information into ChatGPT to ask what diagnostic avenues I should explore or what possibilities I should consider, ensuring that nothing is overlooked.

For patients with hypertension—specifically those with a systolic blood pressure reaching 200 mmHg who are also experiencing dizziness—I sometimes forget the exact preparation protocol for a sodium nitroprusside infusion. In such cases, I use this software to look up the correct preparation method, and then I enter the corresponding orders into the system.

Sometimes, patients come in needing tetanus shots or rabies vaccines, and I honestly find it quite easy to get things mixed up—like how many doses are required in a given situation, or at what age a full course of vaccination might not be necessary (or when just a booster shot will suffice). Whenever there’s a lull—like when a patient has stepped out—I’ll quickly pull out my phone and use this app to look up the correct information.

The thing is, I’m using the free version because I don’t want to pay that $20 subscription fee. Even though the U.S. is an adversary of my great motherland, I still subscribe to the philosophy of "learning from the barbarians to master their own techniques"—if there’s a chance to take advantage of the Americans, I’m going to take it.

You might ask why I don’t use China’s DeepSeek or other similar LLMs. The reason is that a vast amount of medical data—such as drug package inserts or explanations of various diseases—originates from the United States or the English-speaking world. Consequently, the datasets and underlying information supporting medical-related content in American AI models are far superior—both in terms of quality and scope—to what is available in China.

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[Instrumental Intro: 16 bars; aggressive electric bass riff begins alone; loose live drums and choppy indie guitar join; no vocals]

[Verse A: 24 bars; high intimate female lead, legato; each short line gets room to hang, bass remains foreground]

Left my coffee by the window

Last night

Getting cold

Had a thought I couldn't finish

On my own

So I wrote

Put a little of myself in

One line

Sent it through

Funny how it came back dancing

Not the same

Something new

[Verse A Reprise: 24 bars; same vocal melody and lyrics; bright guitar added, short violin replies]

Left my coffee by the window

Last night

Getting cold

Had a thought I couldn't finish

On my own

So I wrote

Put a little of myself in

One line

Sent it through

Funny how it came back dancing

Not the same

Something new

[Bass and Violin Break: 24 bars; instrumental only; bass climbs, snaps down low, climbs again; violin answers with fast graceful runs, dry drums break into short fills, indie guitar stabs]

[Refrain B1: 8 bars; long floating held vowels, four melodic lines across eight bars]

Loopin' round

Lost in the feeling

I don't know what's next

But I like where it goes

[Refrain B2: 8 bars; same high melodic stance, second vocal phrase]

Loopin' round

All through the evening

Give it half a thought

And it gives me something whole

[Instrumental Dance Break: 16 bars; bass leads, live drums and guitar push hard; violin and high synth answer; brief drum dropout then bass reentry]

[Refrain B1: 8 bars; full groove, more soaring but never belted]

Loopin' round

Lost in the feeling

I don't know what's next

But I like where it goes

[Refrain B2 Return: 8 bars; same melody, last line transforms]

Loopin' round

All through the evening

Give it half a thought

And we make it something whole

[Outro: 16 bars; instrumental bass-led vamp; violin answers the descending bass turnaround; occasional airy wordless held vowel, complete musical resolution]

I have been working on a coding project in Linux and have been working with the 5.x models. It was working fine - good workflow. No limits. My workflow involves ChatGPT providing code and scripts and me actually reading it before running as my project is also a learning tool so it's not like I'm running a coding agent - it's a slower process.

Now I've been pushed to GPT-6 Astra, it feels like the context is nerfed because it keeps asking for the same reference materials over and over.

And 6:30am it tells me mid conversation:

You’ve reached your 5-hour Work usage limit

Upgrade to Pro to remove the 5-hour limit, add credits to continue now, or wait for your usage to reset at 9:30 AM.

Pro recommends the $200 plan but does have a $100 plan for losers.

Oh, well - I knew this time was coming.

Looks like a good time to complete my move to local LLMs (I have a DGX Spark and I've used ChatGPT in my development to work toward that) or check out some Chinese models like Deepseek until I'm completely local.

Tried to create a portfolio for my work. Open to suggestions.
https://ankurmulasi-growth-lead-portfolio.pages.dev/

TL;DR: The official Sora export appears incomplete, but the old Library is gone, so I cannot even identify what is missing.
OpenAI Support has told me they cannot verify the export against the former Library and cannot confirm that the export is complete.
For three months, I have been asking for one temporary read-only preservation window, or at least a verified inventory or manifest, before historical Sora data is permanently deleted.

I’ve been trying to handle this privately with OpenAI Support for about three months, but at this point I think other former Sora users should know what has been happening.

I’m not asking OpenAI to bring Sora generation back.

My problem is much more basic than that: I still cannot reliably determine whether my historical Sora data has actually been preserved in the official export, because the old Library is gone and the export itself appears incomplete.

Before Sora became inaccessible, I remember having roughly around 4,000 historical items or records associated with my use of Sora.

I can’t verify that exact historical number anymore, and that is part of the problem. What I can currently account for through the export appears to be substantially less than what I remember having, possibly around half.

I’ve run the official Sora export multiple times and the same basic problem remains.

Some of my own historical creations appear to be missing, and former Library areas such as Likes, Favorites, My Media, and other account-linked history can no longer be opened at all.

So I have no reliable way to identify what is missing.

The interface that would have allowed me to compare my historical account against the export is no longer available.

That puts me in a ridiculous situation: I have reason to believe historical data is missing, but I no longer have access to the very interface I would need to identify and verify those missing items.

After months of Support conversations, OpenAI Support eventually gave me a clear written answer.

They told me that Support currently cannot compare my exported files against the former Sora Library, cannot confirm whether all historical content was included, and does not have another method to retrieve, verify, or preserve historical Sora content beyond the existing export.

They also explicitly told me that this does not mean my exports have been confirmed as complete.

That is the part I find most troubling.

The only preservation mechanism users are being given cannot be independently verified.

The original Library is inaccessible.

Support cannot verify it either.

And according to the official discontinuation process, historical Sora data may eventually be permanently deleted.

Since July, I have been asking OpenAI for what I think is a very reasonable preservation solution: give former Sora users a temporary, authenticated, strictly read-only Library before final deletion.

I am not asking for generation to come back.

Generation could stay disabled. Uploads could stay disabled. Editing, publishing, Likes, Saves, deletion, and every other write action could stay disabled.

I only want a way to search, review, verify, preserve, and download eligible historical material that is still associated with my account.

If even a limited read-only Library is not practical, then an equivalent verified inventory, manifest, historical item list, or another verification mechanism would also help.

I first raised this issue in July.

I even asked for a temporary read-only period before the remaining Sora API shutdown on September 24.

Nothing like that was provided.

It is now late October.

For roughly three months I have gone through Support cases, AI-assisted replies, duplicate closures, escalations, and human reviews.

The Support staff I spoke with were generally polite, and I do appreciate that.

But politeness does not solve the underlying problem.

One human Support specialist eventually told me directly that they cannot verify the export against the old Library, cannot provide another preservation method, and cannot confirm from the available case history that my proposal was ever forwarded to Product or Engineering.

That has been incredibly frustrating.

There is also a personal reason this matters so much to me.

I lost my local Sora backup after an unexpected hard-drive failure in July.

That accident was not OpenAI’s fault, and I have never claimed that it was.

But that accident exposed a much broader problem.

What happens when the official export appears incomplete or questionable, while the original service has already removed the only interface that could be used to verify what is missing?

A backup mechanism without a verification mechanism is not enough once the original inventory has disappeared.

I have also seen other former Sora users on Reddit and X complaining about incomplete exports, missing material, differing export results, and the loss of access to historical Sora content.

Those posts do not prove that every Sora user is affected or that there is a platform-wide export bug.

But they do show that I am not the only person frustrated by the way Sora’s history has been handled.

I think OpenAI should take that seriously.

Sora may be EOL, but that should not make our history disposable.

How a company retires a product matters just as much as how it launches one.

After three months, I’m exhausted.

I’ve tried being patient. I’ve tried Support. I’ve tried escalation. I’ve explained the same verification problem over and over.

I’m posting this publicly now because I honestly do not know what other path is left.

OpenAI, please give former Sora users one final meaningful opportunity to verify and preserve their history before historical data is permanently deleted.

A temporary read-only Library would help.

A verified inventory would help.

A complete preservation export would help.

Any practical mechanism that allows us to know what we actually had and preserve what is still eligible and retained would help.

That is all I am asking.

If you used Sora and experienced missing exports, inconsistent export counts, inaccessible Likes/Favorites/Collections, or other preservation problems, please share what happened, especially if you still have screenshots, export dates, approximate counts, or other evidence.

I genuinely want to know whether this is only my experience or whether other former Sora users are dealing with the same thing.

Further proof OAI will not be here in the next three years, Google or Apple will purchase them.

There's no way this level of mediocrity is not worth a trillion dollars. This level of mediocrity cannot be sustainable when you have Claude code that makes ChatGPT look like it's surfing a short bus.

OAI ChatGPT is officially pure, overrated, broken shit!

For anyone that says it's skills, show me what you've made and I will show you what I've made.

What I created is fairly complex but Claude code can handle the complexity.

I resubscribed at the start of this 28 days of resets and it has made the month tolerable but really, without it, how can anyone touch this product?

Apparently, to be true... AI has gone dumber... Devs too...

The fact that Webview apps & Slop is increasing hard. And seriously, models are only good at benchmarks.

(Btw, I'm using 5.6 Sol. It's the last best as per my thinking)

I said LETS GO GAMBLING when I learned about Tibo's challenge thing (very new pro 100 user) and it seems to have picked this up without looking up the reference i was making. Was fun to see.

retiring to play mario

Ive been using AI for years for all sorts of things, from asking questions, deep diving into subjects, having it code, very long TABLE TOP role playing game sessions, venting, planning, writing emails, etc. Not once have I ever considered it as anything other than a tool. Stop falling in love with The dictionary calculator. Edited because y'all dirty.

Guys I can’t figure out if it’s me or if they over-tweaked it again.

I was having a productive analysis conversation with it but over the past two days it just started to basically just repeating what I said to it slightly reworded. It doesn’t add analysis or conclusions unless I call it out on it.

Is it just me, or has this been observed by others? It’s so hard to tell anymore because sometimes I would cancel my subscription feeling it became useless only to read a week or so later that yes, they admit they caused an issue, it’s doing it to everyone and they are fixing the problem.

But it could just be that my chat is too long.

I hate that they can change how the model functions WHILE STILL USING THE SAME chat.

It’s exhausting

I have been using ChatGPT since July in an actual 'serious' way to help me start and build my freelance business, gather and organise my train of thought, and help me figure out the practicual stuff of starting the business. It also helps me note down things from meetings and I use it daily to check my to do's for the day, know what I'm working on and just have this nice workbook/soundingboard/helper for my work.

Because that requires me to upload quite some screenshots and documents to get the help I need (ie building my website, shaping my portfolio, checking how to go about acquiring new customers etc.) I got the plus version in July.

There have always been issues that it doesn't reply correctly to some things and it has been very very frustrating at times, but recently it's been getting so much worse and it's mostly been frustrating instead of helpful and I'm getting to the point where I am not sure I want to be paying for this anymore.

However, I really do need an AI to help me the way ChatGPT has kind of helped me before as described above. It generally really helps me not use up too much energy (I've got ADHD and autism). I've read some posts on here running into the same issue of it being wrong more often and just plainly frustrating to use too often so I'm guessing it's not a me issue.

Can someone tell me if there's a better AI to use for the purpose I've been using ChatGPT for and that works better for that purpose (ie doesn't frustrate as much and thus cause more issues instead of help)? Also, if there is; is there a way of somehow exporting all of the chats I've had with ChatGPT into that other AI so I don't have to start anew?

As you can probably tell; I'm not the most advanced AI/ChatGPT user but hoping someone on here knows the answer :) Thanks!

I was thinking that instead of having to figure out the best time to run my washing machine, it would be great to let my agent decide when to start it.

I imagine having access to other smart home devices would make this even more useful.

How far are we from having MCP tools connected to our home devices?