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Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI

279 pointsby freedmandabout 2 years ago

30 comments

supermattabout 2 years ago
Not to be confused with gpt4all <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nomic-ai&#x2F;gpt4all">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nomic-ai&#x2F;gpt4all</a> which is a &quot;free&quot; GPT LLM.<p>It seems this gpt4free was basically hijacking 3rd parties services that use GPT-4, bypassing the official OpenAI APIs in order to avoid paying for inference. Of course, that means that the hijacked 3rd parties are the ones footing the bill...<p>I&#x27;m not surprised they have been issued a takedown notice.
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rwl4about 2 years ago
This project is designed to allow people to use ChatGPT via reversed engineered private APIs. It&#x27;s not surprising they went after this.<p>Here&#x27;s the project description from the README:<p><pre><code> Have you ever come across some amazing projects that you couldn&#x27;t use just because you didn&#x27;t have an OpenAI API key? We&#x27;ve got you covered! This repository offers reverse-engineered third-party APIs for GPT-4&#x2F;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&#x27;s official package. Unleash ChatGPT&#x27;s potential for your projects, now! You are welcome ; ). </code></pre> Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xtekky&#x2F;gpt4free&#x2F;blob&#x2F;6719bee133ce8202129e19aa2c728259206684b7&#x2F;README.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xtekky&#x2F;gpt4free&#x2F;blob&#x2F;6719bee133ce8202129e...</a>
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ziml77about 2 years ago
It&#x27;s a project that lets you piggyback off of others&#x27; ChatGPT API keys without their permission? If so, then it seems like it would violate both OpenAI&#x27;s ToS as well as the ToS for any site that is being used as a proxy.<p>And is this a DMCA takedown? It&#x27;s not actually specified in the readme update and I would have thought that the repo would have been hidden by now if it was one. Plus I&#x27;m not sure what they&#x27;d be claiming copyright on here (the API maybe?)
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sandisabout 2 years ago
A lot of comments confuse this with a different repo. It has nothing to do with the name. This project is&#x2F;was a way to use LLM APIs on someone else&#x27;s dime. It&#x27;s the equivalent of &quot;S3 4 free&quot; where someone would collect exposed AWS credentials and use them to store their stuff.
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rolphabout 2 years ago
phind.com takedown request #153<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xtekky&#x2F;gpt4free&#x2F;issues&#x2F;153">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xtekky&#x2F;gpt4free&#x2F;issues&#x2F;153</a><p>ora.sh takedown request #125<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xtekky&#x2F;gpt4free&#x2F;issues&#x2F;125">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xtekky&#x2F;gpt4free&#x2F;issues&#x2F;125</a>
oli5679about 2 years ago
Here is an interesting poem that the repo maintainer committed as a readme, incase anyone doesn&#x27;t click the link:<p><pre><code> We got a takedown request by openai&#x27;s legal team... here is a lil poem you can read in the meantime, while I am investigating it: A little boy sat, in his humble abode. He tinkered and toyed with devtools galore, And found himself curious, eager for more. He copy-pasted requests, with glee and delight, A personal project, to last him the night. For educational purposes, and fun it was too, This little boy&#x27;s journey had just begun anew. Now far away, in a tower so grand, A big company stood, ruling the land. Their software was mighty, their power supreme, But they never expected this boy and his dream. As he played with their code, they started to fret, &quot;What if he breaks it? What if we&#x27;re upset?&quot; They panicked and worried, their faces turned red, As visions of chaos danced in their head. The CEO paced in his office so wide, His minions all scurrying to hide. &quot;Who is this child?&quot; he cried out in fear, &quot;Who dares to disrupt our digital sphere?&quot; The developers gathered, their keyboards ablaze, To analyze the boy&#x27;s mischievous ways. They studied his project, they pored through his code, And soon they discovered his humble abode. &quot;We must stop him!&quot; they cried with a shiver, &quot;This little boy&#x27;s making our company quiver!&quot; So they plotted and schemed to halt his advance, To put an end to his digital dance. ( I did not write it ) discord: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.com&#x2F;gpt4free</code></pre>
MuffinFlavoredabout 2 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xtekky&#x2F;gpt4free&#x2F;tree&#x2F;7ef85f46716bb39f1e19f77949d02b7881399cc4">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xtekky&#x2F;gpt4free&#x2F;tree&#x2F;7ef85f46716bb39f1e19...</a> last commit before &quot;we got a takedown&quot; was in README
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williamsteinabout 2 years ago
They put my site <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cocalc.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cocalc.com</a>, which has chatgpt API integration, into this gpt4free. As a result, I had to modify <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cocalc.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cocalc.com</a> 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 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xtekky&#x2F;gpt4free&#x2F;pull&#x2F;461">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xtekky&#x2F;gpt4free&#x2F;pull&#x2F;461</a> to Gpt4free to have them remove cocalc. They were respectful, with some discussion back and forth, and they merged the PR. I personally don&#x27;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.
rambojohnsonabout 2 years ago
not sure what&#x27;s justifying the pearl-clutching here... they&#x27;ve openly stated they are basically repurposing actual ChatGPT APIs from openai through some &quot;reverse engineered private APIs&quot; -- uhh..
baptiste313about 2 years ago
In case the repository disappears I share an archive of it <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.softwareheritage.org&#x2F;browse&#x2F;revision&#x2F;7ef85f46716bb39f1e19f77949d02b7881399cc4&#x2F;?origin_url=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xtekky&#x2F;gpt4free" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.softwareheritage.org&#x2F;browse&#x2F;revision&#x2F;7ef85f4...</a>
withinrafaelabout 2 years ago
Are they really <i>private</i> APIs if they are accessible to the public in some form that can be reverse engineered?
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transitivebsabout 2 years ago
I was also given a takedown notice by OpenAI for the ChatGPT twitter bot github repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;transitive-bullshit&#x2F;chatgpt-twitter-bot">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;transitive-bullshit&#x2F;chatgpt-twitter-bot</a><p>This was ~2 months ago, and I&#x27;m fortunate enough to have a direct contact at OpenAI who I complained to. He came back promptly and told me it was a mistake and the takedown notice was retracted. I also changed the twitter bot&#x27;s logo to be purple instead of green to avoid future issues.
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ranger_dangerabout 2 years ago
Doesn&#x27;t the DMCA have an exception for reverse engineering if it&#x27;s for the purposes of compatibility with other programs?
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jacquesmabout 2 years ago
What are the chances of the conflict of interest (or lack thereof) between OpenAI&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;Github being an issue here? I&#x27;m kind of surprised they even bothered with a takedown request.
rhyme-bossabout 2 years ago
Did their discord get taken down already? The link from the repo 404s.
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heres_a_bundleabout 2 years ago
Here&#x27;s a mirror in case it gets taken down: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20230428163410&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;litter.catbox.moe&#x2F;gc4o73.bundle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20230428163410&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;litter.ca...</a><p>To clone from this:<p><pre><code> wget https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20230428163410embed_&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;litter.catbox.moe&#x2F;gc4o73.bundle git clone gc4o73.bundle gpt4free</code></pre>
seydorabout 2 years ago
This is not the outrage you re looking for, move along.<p>And developers can use their time much more productively to improve one of the many open source alternativez
neomabout 2 years ago
Alright but we don&#x27;t know enough here to evaluate the legitimacy of the request from OpenAI. Very little to go on.
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war-is-peaceabout 2 years ago
A lot of the comments seem to repeat the &quot;just like how GPT is using our content we created&quot; sort of reasoning - whether that you agree with that or not, I don&#x27;t see how that justifies the bill for your usage being out of someone else&#x27;s (not openAIs) pocket?
numpad0about 2 years ago
Looks like it was a “paywall bypass” for GPT-3.5&#x2F;GPT-4 through vulnerable third parties. DMCA forbids access control circumvention, among other things, so seems like a takedown is expected.
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tommek4077about 2 years ago
Why would you put something like this on github? Are there no &quot;Hacker&quot; forums anymore?
greenie_beansabout 2 years ago
is openai encouraging people to reuse the &quot;gpt&quot; acronym for the apps built with their api? seems like a bad idea from a branding POV.
jesprenjabout 2 years ago
I made a mirror just in case: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ni.4a.si&#x2F;anonymous&#x2F;gpt4free&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ni.4a.si&#x2F;anonymous&#x2F;gpt4free&#x2F;</a>
TheObviousOneabout 2 years ago
Let&#x27;s arrange a donation for the creator of this Repo.<p>This is gold and crucial for democratization of AI tools.
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mugivarra69about 2 years ago
so dev has a proxy to inf instance of openai?
tinyhouseabout 2 years ago
That&#x27;s good. It&#x27;s not the wild wild west here.
kernalabout 2 years ago
Streisand effect engaged.
nbardyabout 2 years ago
Touché, that poem is a show stopper
can16358pabout 2 years ago
I didn&#x27;t know about this project. Thanks to the takedown notice I&#x27;ll immediatelly clone it and start using it.<p>Thank you OpenAI for playing a role in me finding an alternative!
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zeven7about 2 years ago
Predictable. You could just come up with an original name and be fine. &quot;GPT4&quot; obviously means the OpenAI product to people.<p>For those ootl, here&#x27;s the previous thread where OP was given a lot of advice from the HN community to change the name <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35608437" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35608437</a>
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