GPT-5 Bugs & Issues Tracker Live Feed
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: November 14, 2025 02:38
GPT-5 API latency spikes reported during peak hours, causing timeouts for some applications.
Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Dev Forums
Unexpected error 502 when generating code snippets with specific Python libraries (e.g., `pandas`).
Sources: Reddit, StackOverflow
GPT-5 chat interface drops conversation history after session reconnect, losing previous context.
Sources: OpenAI Dev Forums, Reddit
GPT-5 API experiencing sporadic 502 errors during high concurrency requests.
Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum,
Model generating duplicate content blocks in multi-step workflows when using the Chat Completions endpoint.
Sources: Reddit,
Serious latency spikes (up to 30+ seconds) reported in EU regions for GPT-5 API calls.
Sources: X, OpenAI Developer Forum,
Fine-tuned GPT-5 models occasionally revert to default base behavior without warning in production.
Sources: Reddit, StackOverflow.
GPT-5 experiences severe latency (20-30s delays) when handling multi-turn API calls in high-traffic periods.
Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum
Certain code-generation prompts cause GPT-5 to output syntactically invalid code intermittently, especially for TypeScript projects.
Sources: GitHub, Reddit
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
GPT-5 API rate limits fluctuating, causing unpredictable 429 errors for some enterprise accounts.
Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum
Severe latency spikes (10-30s delays) reported during midday UTC, affecting production deployments.
Sources: X (Twitter), OpenAI Developer Forum
Inconsistent code output with multi-file Python project generations; some files missing or incomplete.
Sources: Reddit, StackOverflow
Data extraction prompts returning blank responses for tabular inputs in CSV parsing tasks.
Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum
GPT-5 outputs corrupted CSV files when parsing multi-language datasets.
Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum
GPT-5 experiences significant slowdowns during complex code generation tasks with nested function requests.
Sources: Reddit, X
GPT-5 frequently omits citations or references in generated academic text, even when explicitly prompted.
Sources: OpenAI Developer Forum, Reddit
GPT-5 misinterprets certain Markdown tables, causing formatting errors in outputs.
Sources: X, GitHub
GPT-5 experiencing frequent server-side timeouts when generating code snippets longer than 150 lines.
Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Dev Forum
Sudden degradation in output quality for non-English languages, specifically Japanese and Korean, after June 11th update.
Sources: Reddit, X (Twitter)
GPT-5 API rate limiting stricter than documented, causing unexpected HTTP 429 errors for some Plus users.
Sources: OpenAI Dev Forum, StackOverflow
GPT-5 occasionally generates blank outputs on long-form coding tasks via API.
Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum
Unexpected model downtime reported in certain European regions, impacting multi-step workflows.
Sources: Reddit, X
Some users experience high latency (over 30 seconds) when uploading images for multimodal analysis.
Sources: OpenAI Developer Forum, Reddit
GPT-5 API endpoints experiencing increased latency and occasional timeouts for batch processing requests since the latest update.
Sources: Reddit, OpenAI Developer Forum,
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