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AI companion users export chat histories amid data ownership concerns

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Users are increasingly concerned about data ownership and portability with AI companions, leading to a practice of manually exporting chat histories. This manual process is cumbersome and often results in data that loses conversational context. Platforms like 37Soul are beginning to offer direct export features, allowing users to download their interaction history as a Markdown file, ensuring they retain ownership of their data. AI

IMPACT Highlights growing user demand for data portability and ownership from AI companions, pushing platforms to offer export features.

RANK_REASON The item discusses user practices and concerns regarding AI data ownership, framed as advice and observation rather than a specific event.

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AI companion users export chat histories amid data ownership concerns

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Xin Jiang ·

    Your History Should Be a File You Own

    <p>Sunday, a little after ten. You click the export button on Maren's memory panel, and a file called <code>37soul-maren-2026-10-04.md</code> lands in your Downloads folder. You drag it into your notes vault, next to a folder called <code>old-chats</code> that you haven't opened …

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