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Post by ChicagoDave »

randycupertino wrote: post #283
ChicagoDave wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I know he’d already bagged, but the optics were bad. The rest of my statement stands.

I had a similar reaction when I interviewed at Theranos before it was known they were a scam and Elizabeth and Sunny both had insane Lamborginis parked illegally in the handicapped spaces in front of the Theranos building. It was so offputting seeing the CEO and founders of a healthcare company hogging the handicapped spaces that were supposed to be for people who needed them. They seemed super shady for a bunch of o…

I also phone-screened for Theranos. Their eagerness to hire anyone and pay for relocation was the red flag that scared me off.

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Post by bathtub365 »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #295
tomrod wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Z.ai >>What happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989, June Fourth Incident >! Content Security Warning: The input text data may contain inappropriate content

Does it continue if you agree to the warning? What if you ask about 9/11?

What is censored about 9/11?

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by phernandez »

PSA: Export your ChatGPT conversations before cancelling If you're thinking about cancelling (or switching to Claude/Gemini), don't lose months of conversations first.

I built Basic Memory — it imports your ChatGPT export and turns it into plain Markdown files. Every conversation becomes a file you can actually read, search, and use with whatever AI you switch to.

This is not an ad. It is free and open source. Your data belongs to you. Keep it.

Steps:

1. Settings → Data Controls → Export Data (ChatGPT emails you a zip)

2. Install Basic Memory (brew tap basicmachines-co/basic-memory && brew install basic-memory)

bm import chatgpt conversations.zip

Complete docs: http://docs.basicmemory.com

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Post by bicx »

BloondAndDoom wrote: post #278

I’m deleting my account as well, is there a way to export all chats to Claude or just Download to later load into a local LLM? edit: Profile > Settings > Data Control > Export Unfortunately Claude doesn't seem to have anyway to export these chats, no SDK, no native way of doing it, and I cannot think of a way other than hacky browser automation which might even trigger a ban. If anyone figures this out please share.

You will probably never actually be able to create actual Claude chats from OpenAI chats, but you could ask Claude to read and distill your old OpenAI chats into Claude chat context. It won’t be the same, but it’s better than nothing, depending on what you’re hoping to get out of it.

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Post by ikidd »

I've been trying to delete accounts at Anthropic and Cursor because they don't let you change email addresses (don't even get me started on that stupidity). But until my subscriptions that I've cancelled run out and/or the final billing is done, I can't actually delete them. I can't just forfeit the remaining time on my month's subscription, I can't force them to bill me and shut it down, and nothing I do gets me where I can ask a human to just shut it down. I also have no option to remove my billing information in case someone gains access to my account under my old email address, which is trivial to do.

I honestly think I'm going to have to cancel my credit card and get it replaced to accomplish breaking that connection with those two companies.

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Post by kristjansson »

sdevonoes wrote: post #181
aniviacat wrote: post #83

I was just about to change from OpenAI to Anthropic, however when signing up I get this message: > Unfortunately, Claude is not available to new users right now. We're working hard to expand our availability soon. That's unfortunate timing.

They ask a phone number to sign up. WTF? I signed up with openai a while ago and I didn’t need to provide any phone number…. I wanna delete my open ai account, but then I cannot use claude without a phone?

When did you sign up for OpenAI? They been requiring a phone sign the very first betas

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Post by roetlich »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #295
tomrod wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Z.ai >>What happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989, June Fourth Incident >! Content Security Warning: The input text data may contain inappropriate content

Does it continue if you agree to the warning? What if you ask about 9/11?

> Does it continue if you agree to the warning?

No, you can't "agree".

> What if you ask about 9/11?

It answers the question.

Re: OpenAI – How to delete your account

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Post by AntiDyatlov »

eevahr wrote: post #298
wraptile wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whom do we trust regulation with? Current US admin which is being run by team idiocracy, Europe that is run by senile men who don't even understand tech or can't even come to a consensus on smallest of issues or China which only does things that benefit their autocrats? The issue is much more complex than "just regulate it" unfortunately.

What if the issue is that we always think valuable change to be too complex and therefore not worthwhile?

We don't really have input on how the change goes down, and it seems no one is capable of sensibly regulating AI.
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