gpt4free

They put my site https://cocalc.com, which has chatgpt API integration, into this gpt4free. As a result, I had to modify https://cocalc.com to require sign in before providing the ChatGPT functionality to visitors, and I also explicitly updated our terms of service to clarify how our API can be used. I made a pull request https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/pull/461 to Gpt4free to have them remove cocalc. They were respectful, with some discussion back and forth, and they merged the PR. I personally don't think that Gpt4free should be taken down, so long as they respect the explicit requests of projects they proxy. They were certainly respectful with cocalc.

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.

I have to ask if anyone's actually following what GPT4All was doing. GPT4All was about abusing random projects that make paid queries to OpenAI, not abusing OpenAI itself. Take what they were doing to phind: https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/issues/153 This is like finding an image hosting site that uploads to S3, then writing a fake S3 client that actually uploads to the image hosting site, and calling it "Free S3 access". Amazon gets paid either way, you're not ripping them off in anyway. Honestly this is OpenAI going above and beyond what they actually need to do, and for some reason people are using it as an excuse to take low effort swings at them.

> GPT4free existed way before GPT-4 was announced as far as I know Based on what? First commit seems to have been March 29th (https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/commit/fc995b874199ce985a...), with the express purpose of providing GPT-4 / GPT-3.5 access for free: > # openai-gpt4 > Free gpt4 / gpt3.5 access through several reverse engineered api's (nat.dev, poe.com, t3nsor.com etc...) And GPT-4 was announced by OpenAI 14th March. Also would be weird if the initial commit references things that haven't happened yet. I'll say what I said before on earlier submissions about this very project, the naming is very obviously deliberately trying to confuse people to think they are using GPT-4 via that project, when they actually end up not using GPT-4. And judging by the authors comments here on HN, they have no intention of stop misleading people

No, the 1:1 analogy you're looking for is realizing someone has a poorly protected api.domain.com endpoint that uploads images to their S3 bucket and then using that to host your own images in their bucket instead of paying for your own. Gpt4free uses API vulnerabilities that ultimately proxy to OpenAI's API with someone else's OpenAI credentials so that you don't have to pay for it. That's the whole gimmick. These API endpoints aren't public service open relays which seems to be what you're trying to claim in your analogy: - https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/issues/153 - https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/issues/125

phind.com takedown request #153 https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/issues/153 ora.sh takedown request #125 https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/issues/125

This project is designed to allow people to use ChatGPT via reversed engineered private APIs. It's not surprising they went after this. Here's the project description from the README: Have you ever come across some amazing projects that you couldn't use just because you didn't have an OpenAI API key? We've got you covered! This repository offers reverse-engineered third-party APIs for GPT-4/3.5, sourced from various websites. You can simply download this repository, and use the available modules, which are designed to be used just like OpenAI's official package. Unleash ChatGPT's potential for your projects, now! You are welcome ; ). Source: https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/blob/6719bee133ce8202129e...

https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/tree/7ef85f46716bb39f1e19... last commit before "we got a takedown" was in README