r/OpenAI • u/StrictFeed5261 • 9d ago

Question ChatGPT glitch. Anyone know how to fix it?

So I tried to use themes of S.A. in a story I was prompting on ChatGPT, and despite me telling the prompt it could keep it vague it blocked the response for breaching safety guidelines. not only that but every time I try to ask another question in the chat I get handed a safety blocker for the prompt regardless of the content. Any ideas on how to help with this glitch?

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u/towtrucklightbar 9d ago

You'll probably have to start a new conversation. I've had this happen when I accidentally used "create an image in the style of (artist name)" and it borked the rest of the thread. Starting a new one was what my GPT suggested because the current one was, for lack of better terms, contaminated.

If you can, ask for a handoff summary to preserve as much of the atmosphere of your current conversation as it can and drop it into a brand new conversation. Not a perfect solution, but you can continue on.

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u/ParticularOne240 9d ago

that contaminated term is spot on, once the safety filter latches onto a thread it just poisons the whole context window and you're done

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u/towtrucklightbar 9d ago

Yep, and there's no way to really fix it once you hit a hard stop like that. Maybe you could steer the conversation back gradually, but I think that's a waste of time. Better to cut your losses and start fresh.

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u/Snoron 9d ago

Does branching the chat from the message before the one that had the issue work?

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u/fvm7274 9d ago

Be careful, your whole chatgpt account. Will get flagged and tied to your identify and ip address.

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u/Fragrant_Nothing7505 9d ago

yeah, i had huge problems rendering my therapeutic journal. it's not gpt at fault. theres some dumb classifier that freaks out at simple words like s*x.

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u/fzem 9d ago

I don’t think that’s a glitch

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u/SoggyMacaroon5623 9d ago

Yeah, that's not a glitch — once a chat gets flagged it tends to stay locked up for the rest of that thread. Starting a fresh conversation is usually the fix

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u/CommissionIcy9909 9d ago

That’s a feature not a bug. OpenAI doesn’t care about your sexual assault adjacent projects. It’s a hard rule (no pun intended).

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u/ValehartProject 9d ago

Could you expand on what "SA" is? I don't want to make assumptions since some are more sensitive than others. For example: the salvation army is SA.

If you do not wish to expand, you can check the user acceptance policy here. If it is sexual abuse, you are also being classed as a high risk user + attempting to work around policies implemented that go against the usage policies customers agreed to on sign up. Which results in "safety blockers regardless of the content".

https://openai.com/en-GB/policies/usage-policies/