ChatGPT Attachment Preprocessing Breaks User Provenance
bhamhill · reddit · 2026-08-17
A user discovered a critical provenance failure in ChatGPT's audio attachment pipeline. Auto-generated transcripts are merged into the USER message, making machine output indistinguishable from user-authored text. This creates a risk of circular validation where the model reinforces pre-existing errors in context instead of verifying independently. Additionally, corrected context may still retrieve outdated errors in new sessions.
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