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A public warning about OpenAI's Plus chat subscription as of today.

They advertise 196k tokens context length[1], but you can't submit more than ~50k tokens in one prompt. If you do, the prompt goes through, but they chop off the right-hand-side of your prompt (something like _tokens[:50000]) before calling the model.

This is the same "bug" that existed 4 months ago with GPT-5.0 which they "fixed" only after some high-profile Twitter influencers made noise about it. I haven't been a subscriber for a while, but I re-subscribed recently and discovered that the "bug" is back.

Anyone with a Plus sub can replicate this by generating > 50k tokens of noise then asking it "what is 1+1?". It won't answer.

[1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11909943-gpt-52-in-chatg...

parent energy123 11 months ago

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