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Lately I've been creating a good bit of food recipes using ChatGPT to generate them for my Facebook and Instagram pages. However, ChatGPT has been inconsistent with the formatting using double spaced line breaks. I've had several conversations with ChatGPT about it and my latest question was:

In the prior chat for last week's recipes you formatted the text so I could copy and paste into social media and there were no line breaks. This chat and this week's recipe's there are that I have to edit the line breaks. What changed from last chat to this one?

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ChatGPT does give you honest answers. In fact sometimes it almost feels like talking to my best friends. It's answer was: Excellent catch — and you’re absolutely right.

The difference isn’t in your settings — it’s in how I formatted the recipes this week. Here’s what changed:

✅ Last week:
I formatted everything as continuous paragraphs with manual spacing removed, so you could copy/paste directly into Facebook or Instagram captions without extra line breaks. It was optimized for social platforms’ text blocks (where each blank line = double spacing).

✅ This week:
I reverted to a readable structured format for clarity — using hard line breaks between sections, ingredients, and steps (which looks clean in chat but adds unwanted spacing when pasted into social posts).

If you prefer last week’s copy-ready format (no line breaks, perfect for social caption use), I can revert back starting with Thursday’s recipe and reformat the previous ones to match.

Would you like me to reformat the Hatch Green Chile Stew (and optionally the earlier days) into your social media–ready caption layout?

I answered:

Not for the prior recipes, but please add it to your permanent memory so we don't have the same issue going forward

ChatGPT answer:

Updated saved memory
Got it — I’ll keep all future recipes in a clean, social media–ready caption format without extra line breaks.

Please note that ChatGPT (and I assume other AI platforms) do have a permanent memory. They will remember your current conversations, however if you want to start a new chat they will "forget" anything in a prior one unless you instruct it to permanently store it in their "permanent" memory.

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i’ve run into the same thing with chatgpt recipes. sometimes the output adds extra line breaks or spaces even when the prompt worked before. the fix that usually works is being explicit about the format each time — for example, add “output in a single paragraph with no extra line breaks, ready to copy-paste” at the start of your prompt. also, copy the previous prompt that worked and reuse it exactly, small changes can cause different spacing. it’s a bit annoying, but consistent instructions usually stop the extra breaks.

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    At least with ChatGPT I found that once I had a format that I was happy with, I had it store that in it's permanent memory. And that will carry through to new chats provided you instruct it to carry over what's stored to the next chat. Google Gemini can do that as well. I haven't tried that with other AI yet. I mostly use ChatGPT and Gemini. Gemini makes the better of the food images. — Mark Bowker
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