Colleges are starting to ask
Check the rules your institution publishes for your course and assignment. Do not infer permission from what another college allows.
So the first step is always the same: read what your own college, department or teacher says. If it says nothing, ask. If AI isn't allowed for a piece of work, don't use it there.
What a disclosure usually needs
When a college asks you to disclose AI use, it usually wants to know three things:
- Which tool you used: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or another.
- What for: finding sources, checking grammar, explaining a concept, outlining.
- What's yours: the parts you wrote, decided or checked yourself.
The chat answers the first two on its own. Keeping a copy means you don't have to reconstruct it from memory a week later, and you can show exactly what you asked and what you did with the answer.
A copy is a record, not a pass.
Keeping your chats doesn't make a use of AI acceptable. Your college's rules decide what's allowed. A copy only helps you be clear and honest about what you did.
Keep a copy by hand
- Print to PDF. Open the chat, press Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P on a Mac) and choose Save as PDF. On a short chat it's enough; on a long one, the page layout comes along and long blocks can get cut.
- Export your data. In ChatGPT, Settings, then Data controls, then Export data sends you a .zip of your whole history. Complete, but heavy for one assignment.
- A share link. Quick, but anyone with the link can read the chat, and it isn't a file you can attach.
For a ChatGPT Edu workspace, Uncook warns you and reads only with your agreement. Check your university’s rules before you transmit any content.
The faster way: Export, in Uncook
With the Uncook extension, open the chat in ChatGPT, click the Uncook icon and choose Export. Pick PDF, Markdown or plain text, and you get the conversation itself, clean: your questions and the answers, without the page around them.
It's free, PDF included, and doesn't count as a task. It runs in your browser: the chat isn't sent to our servers. It works the same way on chats from Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and the other AIs Uncook reads, so if you used two AIs for one project, you can keep both.
Name each file after the assignment and the date, and keep them in one folder until the work is marked.
PDF, Markdown or text?
- PDF to attach to a submission or print with your work.
- Markdown to keep the headings and lists, and paste parts into your notes.
- Plain text for the simplest copy, anywhere.
Questions people ask
Do I have to disclose AI use? It depends on your college and your course. Check the rules, and ask your teacher if they aren't written down.
Should I attach the whole chat? Only if you're asked to. Otherwise, keep the copy and describe briefly which tool you used and what for. Have the file ready if someone asks to see it.
Can I do this on my phone? The Uncook extension runs in Chrome on a computer. On a phone, use your browser's share or print menu.
Start fresh,
without starting over.
Add to Chrome
Export runs in your browser, through the extension. The chat isn't sent to our servers, and nothing is kept on our side.
We don't keep the conversations you bring. When you click Send to Uncook in the extension window, the extension sends the chat from your tab to our servers, encrypted, for up to 30 minutes, and we delete it as soon as your Uncook page opens it. What Uncook makes from it is kept as a task, for as long as our Privacy page says. Neither your chats nor your tasks are used to train AI models.