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GPT-5 Bugs & Issues Tracker
GPT-5 Bugs & Issues Tracker

Latest GPT-5 Bugs and Reports

This tracker is updated automatically with community-reported GPT-5 issues from platforms like Reddit, X, OpenAI forums, and Discord. Independent observations only.

Last update: February 13, 2026 11:38

GPT-5 chat completions experiencing unexpected timeouts with complex multi-step code generation requests.

Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum,

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Message context windows occasionally reset in long sessions, losing prior conversation history without warning.

Sources: Reddit, X,

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Certain image-to-text prompts return null responses or 500 errors when images contain mixed language texts.

Sources: OpenAI Developer Forum, Reddit,

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GPT-5 API intermittently rate limiting users below documented thresholds since the latest deployment.

Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum,

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GPT-5 experiencing timeouts and empty responses for API calls with multi-modal (image + text) requests.

Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum

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Sudden increase in hallucinated data when querying recent events (last 48 hours), even when using 'latest context' settings.

Sources: Reddit, X

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Persistent memory leakage observed during long interactive chat sessions in the Playground, leading to browser crashes.

Sources: OpenAI Developer Forum, Reddit

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GPT-5 API sporadically returns 502 gateway errors during high-concurrency requests.

Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum

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Generated code outputs from GPT-5 sometimes include non-executable or garbled Unicode characters in multi-language snippets.

Sources: Reddit, GitHub

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GPT-5 exhibits latency spikes (up to 4x regular response time) when processing large JSON files via API.

Sources: Reddit, X (Twitter)

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Users report GPT-5 chat context windows randomly dropping or swapping content between threads in web interface.

Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum

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GPT-5 API latency spikes reported during peak hours, causing timeouts for some applications.

Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Dev Forums

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Unexpected error 502 when generating code snippets with specific Python libraries (e.g., `pandas`).

Sources: Reddit, StackOverflow

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GPT-5 chat interface drops conversation history after session reconnect, losing previous context.

Sources: OpenAI Dev Forums, Reddit

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GPT-5 API experiencing sporadic 502 errors during high concurrency requests.

Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum,

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Model generating duplicate content blocks in multi-step workflows when using the Chat Completions endpoint.

Sources: Reddit,

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Serious latency spikes (up to 30+ seconds) reported in EU regions for GPT-5 API calls.

Sources: X, OpenAI Developer Forum,

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Fine-tuned GPT-5 models occasionally revert to default base behavior without warning in production.

Sources: Reddit, StackOverflow.

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GPT-5 experiences severe latency (20-30s delays) when handling multi-turn API calls in high-traffic periods.

Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum

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Certain code-generation prompts cause GPT-5 to output syntactically invalid code intermittently, especially for TypeScript projects.

Sources: GitHub, Reddit

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Data loss reported in conversation memory for ChatGPT Plus users when context exceeds 32k tokens; responses sometimes reference earlier portions incorrectly.

Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum

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GPT-5 API rate limits fluctuating, causing unpredictable 429 errors for some enterprise accounts.

Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum

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Severe latency spikes (10-30s delays) reported during midday UTC, affecting production deployments.

Sources: X (Twitter), OpenAI Developer Forum

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Inconsistent code output with multi-file Python project generations; some files missing or incomplete.

Sources: Reddit, StackOverflow

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Data extraction prompts returning blank responses for tabular inputs in CSV parsing tasks.

Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum

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