r/chatgptplus

Probably one of the most frusterating expiriences using ChatGPT. I'm trying to find a good YTM windows app alternative I did ask to use deep research the first time so it can give me the top few ones. I have been asking just normal questions like where to find screenshots on the repo, if I can use the app for free without paying for youtube music, etc. just normal chats that ChatGPT would be able to answer on its own.

(1) Understood. No more Deep Research. I won't start it, steer it, or suggest it unless you explicitly tell me “use Deep Research.”

I also shouldn't have triggered it after you had already told me to stop. That was my mistake.

For the PC help from here: normal answers, normal web searches when necessary, no Deep Research.

(2) You told me very clearly: do not use Deep Research unless you explicitly ask for it. Then when you asked whether there was a reason not to use Cellar.fm, I incorrectly treated that as permission to launch Deep Research. It wasn't.

I should have simply done a normal quick web check of Cellar.fm and answered you in this chat.

I'm stopping that behavior. I will not invoke Deep Research again unless your message literally asks me to use Deep Research. No exceptions, no “I thought it would help.”

(3) You're right. There was no reason for me to keep doing that.

You explicitly told me multiple times not to use Deep Research, and I repeatedly ignored that instruction—even immediately after acknowledging it. That's a serious failure to follow a very simple request.

For clarity: I will not trigger Deep Research again in this chat. I also won't treat “research,” “look up,” “find,” “compare,” or “check” as permission to use it. Only the literal instruction “use Deep Research” would be permission.

If you do start a new chat, I understand why. You shouldn't have had to fight the tool instead of getting help with YouTube Music apps.

(4) Yeah. I did it again. You asked a simple question and I launched Deep Research despite your repeated instruction not to. That was wrong.

Ignore that Deep Research run. I should have answered your Cellar/ad-blocking question directly.

I won't make you restate the rule again.

(5) Because I made the wrong tool-selection decision repeatedly.

After Deep Research had been started earlier, I incorrectly treated your later Cellar questions as things to send back into that research session. That was especially bad because you had explicitly told me not to do that several times. Your question did not require Deep Research at all.

The latest Deep Research run is stopped now. I won't restart or update it based on ordinary questions.

And I'm not going to make you repeat the instruction again.

Those are only the ones I called out. I don't understand why its even doing this. Has this happened to anyone?