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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 desc

• spookie 3y ago
  If they've actually reverse engineered I see no reason in this going anywhere.
  • BoorishBears 3y ago
    They didn't reverse engineer OpenAI's API, they reverse engineered random websites so you could spend their resources instead of your own. That's a great reason for it to go somewhere.
• conradev 3y ago
  Releasing code to use undocumented APIs is speech, and is regulated as such You have to run the code to violate the terms of use, which is primarily used to bar you from the service for misusing it.
  • selfmodruntime 3y ago
    Time and time again. You are protected in your speech from the government. Commercial law does and will still apply. Arbitrary company decisions happen all the time, and GitHub makes it clear that they won’t refrain from deleting repos for whatever reason.
    • seattle_spring 3y ago
      First amendment! Censorship! 2nd amendment for some reason! Yeah in all seriousness people trot out perceived constitutional infringements about 500x times more than it actually happens.
      • smcleod 3y ago
        Also they assume the entire world lives in America.
        • vorpalhex 3y ago
          In this case both OpenAI and Microsoft are US companies, so US law applies.
      • engineer_22 3y ago
        Your rights are your rights, don't give them up.
        • seattle_spring 3y ago
          Totally. It’s just that not every restriction in the world is an infringement on your rights.
    • vorpalhex 3y ago
      Well that's not correct. You are actually very protected in documenting security flaws, and even republishing them. I am unsure of who you think enforces laws... as far as I know OpenAI doesn't have their own police force yet. They can sue you of course, but they generally can't demand compliance with takedowns in this case without first going to a judge and requesting a court order. There is no "commercial law" unless you mean UCC.. which doesn't apply here.
      • spzb 3y ago
        I'm not a lawyer or even an American but that certainly isn't how the DMCA works. The takedown is issued against the hosting company and, if they comply, they have no further liability. If they don't comply, they are liable in court so, of course, they all comply.
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  • px43 3y ago
    This is why Microsoft's takeover of Github (and OpenAI for that matter) is so tragic. They weren't required to take this down. It got taken down because Microsoft didn't like it. Microsoft now has their hooks in the open source community and can crush any project who does something they don't like.
    • ChatGTP 3y ago
      Yup this is just code, the people running the code might be at fault but the code is an example.
  • glitchc 3y ago
    If the code in any way includes private API keys, or circumvents protections on another entity's private API keys, then this is intellectual theft and punishable by the law. I'm willing to bet that without those private keys, the repo is worthless.
    • llamataboot 3y ago
      it doesn't contain private keys, arguably it contains irresponsible disclosures of various ways some large API users can predictably get their keys hijacked
  • xtracto 3y ago
    I find it extremely sad that nowadays the EFF, FSF and ACLU are so watered down compared to the 90s (when I first read about abuses). With the wave of information and abuses that will come in the next years due to proprietary LLMs, i wish there was a new person with the drive of Stallman. Hunanity desperately NEED the new Stallmans, Lech Johansens, Russinovichs and Linuses of these new generations generations.
• codedokode 3y ago
  How does using private APIs violate copyright?
  • nicce 3y ago
    Not copyright but illegal data access and service use.
    • Veen 3y ago
      In exactly what respect is it illegal. Keeping in mind that "not complying with a corporation's policies" is not the same as breaking the law.
      • hedora 3y ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
        • RoyGBivCap 3y ago
          I remember when this passed and thinking that it was all the big, incompetent businesses that can afford lawyers on retainer making sure that only big businesses that can afford lawyers on retainer maintain their position of superior power over individuals. Snuffing out any hope that the little guy - who through sheer talent - can do things on this incredible newfangled equalizing innovation called the Internet will finally have some real chance at power. Bank of America used it to make people who simply changed the account number in their URL bar the criminals instead of them, who were completely incompetent at securing access to their customer's accounts. What previously would have been arguably criminal negligence. It placed intent above competence - but only for those who can afford lawyers. And here it is again, being abused the same way. Hot take: It should be repealed completely.
        • dragonwriter 3y ago
          Assuming that those third-party services are ones that the public can access via their own web interfaces, such that the only thing unauthorized is the manner in which the APIs are consumed, this would seem (unless I am missing more specific precedent) to fall out of CFAA coverage as a result of the Van Buren v. United States decision.
• LordDragonfang 3y ago
  >projects that you couldn't use just because you didn't have an OpenAI API key? It's amazing how the repo phrases this like "having an OpenAI API key" is something that's gatekept, rather than something you get by making a free account. (You may not be able to use it, but the more honest phrasing of "don't want to pay for your own API usage" is apparently too transparent for what this is offering.)
  • mpeg 3y ago
    You can’t currently get a GPT4 API key without being handpicked by OpenaAI sadly. I’m not saying this makes the above repo right, but it is gatekept.