Please see an update for me this morning in the comments. This disaster is going to make me a much better founder. I got up at 3:45 AM today to begin rebuilding my company. Original post follows: I’m standing here writing this in tears, and I want to give a very sobering warning to anyone who is considering upgrading from ChatGPT plus to a business Team’s account on ChatGPT. There is a a glitch that was unknown to me before I started this process, but is apparently well known in the open AI developer community that all of your data is deleted when you migrate it and you can’t get it back. Everything I’ve been building for months is just …. Gone. Other than what I had saved and backed up in my personal files, my entire ChatGPT history has been zeroed out, and it really hurts because this was like my external brain for both home and my business that I’m building. Open AI acknowledged that their company documentation failed to include a warning that all of my personal data would be deleted and everything that I have been working on since day one in my accounts has been deleted, and there’s nothing I can do to get it back even though I followed their exact instructions on merging my personal and business accounts, to the letter. I just paid $618 to upgrade my account to two seats on a business plan and merged the data from my personal account to my business plan. Within a minute or two of that transaction going through as I was following the step-by-step worksheet that ChatGPT itself printed out for me. My accounts froze, and I had to log out. I logged back in everything was blank. When I used my previous emails that I had my accounts tied to to log back in ChatGPT opened free tier accounts using my business email that I just paid $618 to open my business account on. I’ve escalated this to ChatGPT Support and they were extremely unhelpful. Basically they said sorry it’s a known issue and there’s nothing we can do. I was planning on shipping a product today using the ChatGPT business plan because it offers a secure link so that I’m not sending out raw proprietary JSON code.

Well… apparently my little BOT DETECTOR post in the main AI Advantage community caused more turbulence than expected. It survived a whole 2 hours before getting gently escorted off the stage. Reason given: “It might confuse the thread.” Totally fine — I get it. But here’s the part that’s ironic: I posted it precisely to help beginners avoid getting confused. Because half the new members are getting approached by bots and have no idea what’s going on. My intention was simple: ✨ keep humans safe ✨ keep the thread clean ✨ teach new members how to recognize low-effort spam ✨ do it in a fun, memorable way so people actually pay attention But maybe my delivery was a little too… effective 😇 (Moderation bot: “THREAT DETECTED — remove.”) Still love the team — genuinely. No hard feelings. Just amused that the only thing in the community that successfully got flagged was… the anti-bot post 🤖💀 Anyway — since it vanished before some of you saw it, here are the screenshots and the explanation of what it was. If anyone still wants the track or the guide, I can drop them here safely — where context isn’t an issue and beginners actually benefit from it. Humans helping humans. What a concept 😌✨ Also people let us stay inside topic this time in the comments 😉🫰

📝 TL;DR GPT-5.2 is here, and it is aimed squarely at professional work, long-running agents, and complex multi-step projects, not just chat. It is faster, more accurate, and better with tools, code, and long documents, which means more of your workflows can be handed off to AI with confidence. 🧠 Overview OpenAI has released GPT-5.2, its new frontier model series, focused on real knowledge work across documents, spreadsheets, code, data, and tools. It significantly outperforms previous models on professional benchmarks and long-horizon tasks, including reasoning over 256k-token contexts and coordinating complex multi-step workflows. For solopreneurs and small teams, this is less about chat upgrades and more about turning AI into a dependable operations engine. 📜 The Announcement On December 11, 2025, OpenAI announced GPT-5.2 Instant, Thinking, and Pro, now rolling out in ChatGPT paid plans and available via API. The company positions GPT-5.2 as its most capable model yet for professional knowledge work, long-running agents, and complex tool-heavy workflows. GPT-5.1 remains available in ChatGPT for three months as a legacy option, while GPT-5.2 becomes the new frontier tier for serious use. ⚙️ How It Works • Three tiers of power - Instant is the fast everyday model, Thinking handles deep multi-step work, and Pro is the highest quality option when you care more about getting the best answer than saving a few seconds. • Built for real jobs - On a large knowledge work benchmark across 44 occupations, GPT-5.2 Thinking matches or beats top human professionals in most comparisons, while producing outputs much faster and at a fraction of the cost. • Stronger coding and agents - GPT-5.2 hits new highs on tough software engineering benchmarks and is much better at end to end coding workflows, from debugging and refactors to multi step tool use in real projects. • Long context and deep analysis - It can reason accurately over huge contexts, up to hundreds of thousands of tokens, making it far better for contracts, research packs, transcripts, and multi file projects.

I tried the first month for 1$ and now my credit card it being charger $35 for the next month. I want to cancel future charges but the only way to do this is through the website that requires a password to open my account. I do not the password and have sent emails to support but the AI assistant responds that someone will contact me but it does not happen. Any ideas what to do?