OpenAI Explores PDF Downloads To Solve ChatGPT Formatting Issues

You know that feeling when you ask a chatbot to find information and it does a great job but then you try to copy it into a document like Word and the formatting completely breaks. Text spacing gets strange bullets dont line up and alignment is all wrong. It becomes a real mess.

This is a common experience particularly after using ChatGPTs Deep Research feature. It gathers organizes and formats information but only provides a basic copy button that doesnt preserve the layout when moved elsewhere.

However there might be a change coming. A user Tibor Blaho noticed a Download as PDF option appearing briefly on the web version. Its not available to everyone and isnt an official feature yet but its appearance suggests OpenAI might be addressing the formatting problem.

This could be OpenAIs strategy to sidestep the issue of fixing the copy function directly. By offering a PDF download users could get the information with its original layout intact solving the problem indirectly.

But dont get too excited just yet. There is no official timeline for when or if this feature will be widely released. Its also unclear if it will be available for regular chats or remain exclusive to the Deep Research feature. Still its a potential step forward.

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On a related note OpenAI recently added a GitHub connector for Teams users utilizing Deep Research. This allows the AI research assistant to access and analyze codebases which could be useful for developers though its a fairly niche application.