OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will

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ai and ml OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users cannot export workspace chats through OpenAI's standard data export option, but a new free tool offers an unofficial way to retrieve their accessible chat records.Scrapemychats, from freelance journalist Conrad Quilty-Harper, makes it possible for those ChatGPT subscribers to retain a copy of their chat sessions before leaving for other AI pastures. Quilty-Harper just published it this week on GitHub.“I made the stupid decision to upgrade from a personal account to a Business one a while back as they prompted, and for some reason OpenAI doesn't let you export the data easily,” Quilty-Harper explained to The Register in an email. OpenAI says right on its help page about chat exports that Free, Plus, Pro, and some Edu customers can export their chats, but Business and Enterprise workspaces don't have access to that export option. No justification is given (we asked and didn’t hear back), though keeping top-tier subscribers locked in is a distinct possibility. OpenAI does offer Enterprise admins access to workspace conversation logs through its complex Compliance Platform, but the platform retains those logs for only 30 days unless customers archive them elsewhere. ChatGPT Business users, however, have no simple way to create a local archive of their workspace chats without a tool like scrapemychats.Never fear, however, as scrapemychats will be able to liberate those messages - at least until OpenAI closes the loophole it exploits. “I expect OpenAI will stop this from working shortly after you write about it,” Quilty-Harper predicted in our exchange. “It's probably a breach of their terms of service. But hey, their entire business model is based around scraping copyrighted material. This just allows you to get the content...