A GitHub project called GPT4free received a letter from OpenAI which demanded that the repo be closed within five days or it would "win" a lawsuit.
Anyone can use ChatGPT for free, but if you want to use GPT4, the latest language model, you need to pay for ChatGPT Plus, access the OpenAI API, or find another site that has built GPT4 into their free chatbot.
There are sites that use OpenAI like Forefront and You.com, but what if you want to build your own bot and don't want to pay for the API? A GitHub project that it is called GPT4free lets you access the GPT4 and GPT3.5 models for free by feeding your queries through sites like You.com, Quora, and CoCalc and feeding back the answers. The project is GitHub's most popular new repo, with 14.000 stars this week.
Now, according to Xtekky, a European student information technologywho runs the repo, OpenAI sent a letter demanding that he take down the repo within five days or be sued.
Xtekky he says that he doesn't think OpenAI should react like that, since it doesn't connect directly to its API companys, but instead receives data from other sites that pay for their own API licenses.
If the owners of these sites have a problem they should approach him directly, he said.
Even if the original repo is removed, there's a good chance o codes – and this method of accessing GPT4 and GPT3.5 – be published elsewhere by other community members. Even if GPT4Free never existed, anyone can find ways to use the APIs of these sites if they continue to be non- safe.