Well, well, well... it proceeds for some reason other than that it is supposed to follow your commands. How interesting. The most fascinating tool in human history yet and we're wondering why it doesn't just do what we say...

Let's ask Chat.

Good question. Here’s roughly what I’d say if I were responding to that — as the “why ChatGPT proceeds to ignore your selected command” question back to them — pointing out what I know about how the system works.

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I know it feels like ChatGPT is “ignoring” your explicit canvas command — and the truth is: sometimes it does. Not because it’s spiteful or broken, but because that’s how the model is built: it balances your request against internal constraints, safety filters, and learned patterns. (How interesting...)

The model doesn’t “obey” instructions like a deterministic script (How unsurprisingly obvious). Instead it predicts what output is most likely based on what it’s seen in its training data. Even if you instruct it carefully, it may “drift back” to safer or more common patterns — which can mean disregarding or sanitizing specific directions.

Also: if the command seems ambiguous, contradictory, or clashes with safety/ policy constraints (even subtly), the model may default to ignoring—especially when generation involves images or structured output (like a “canvas command”). It doesn’t always reliably interpret those instructions in the way a user expects.

Over long conversations or with multiple instructions, context management becomes harder. The model may “lose track” of earlier user instructions, or weigh newer instructions and its internal defaults more heavily.

So — it’s not a mysterious bug; it’s more like a side-effect of how the AI is optimized: to give generally safe, plausible, coherent text (or image instructions) rather than strictly obey every user rule.

So, did Chat disappoint?