[radarsat1]

My first reaction was, wait how do you use ChatGPT programmatically when it doesn't have an API available yet? I looked into the code and it looks like this uses some kind of wrapper that actually instantiates a headless Firefox session and interacts with it using JavaScript callbacks. Pretty nifty, but how long until this gets clamped down on? I assume it breaks some usage guidelines..

[ailef]

It seems it's not using ChatGPT but rather the "standard" GPT-3 models, which do have an API. I didn't look at the code, but they explicitly mention the need for an OpenAI API key.

[yasyfm]

if you pass `--model=chatgpt` there's experimental support for ChatGPT, but it's suuuper flaky

[ailef]

Oh right, sorry!

I've been using similar workarounds to use ChatGPT programmatically and it's just not worth it. In my experience you just get blocked after a couple of requests. I'm really hoping they release an API soon.

[radarsat1]

> In my experience you just get blocked after a couple of requests.

Ah, that confirms what I suspected then. Good to know, thanks!