OpenAI Threatens Popular GitHub Project with Lawsuit over API Use

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  • gpt4free

    The official gpt4free repository | various collection of powerful language models

  • Except they did secure their API. Take this implementation: https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/blob/main/gpt4free/italyg...

    The site has a rate limit, doesn't expose their API key, and it has a CSRF token. In terms of non-intrusive measures they could have taken, they did it all right.

    So what's left on the table is intrusive stuff: HN has a lot of people constantly whining about how they're stuck in captcha hell because their hand built Lenovo running Firefox on BSD compiled on an abacus isn't recognized as a real client... but aggressive captchas are going to become even more pervasive if every GPT based product must fight off proxy attempts.

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