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by SanderNL 1163 days ago
Use the API if you want some more time with it. You’ll pay for the tokens you use, but twenty bucks gets you some hours of experimentation depending on how fast you’re going.
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You first need to get access to the API, which is not available to everyone
Have you requested it? In my experiences it takes a couple of days.
It's taking a lot longer than that for me.
over 2 weeks for me, still no access.
Do you have any references for how I can do this?
Not the person you asked, but the OpenAI playground is a great place to start messing with their API, I wrote this to help: https://www.inputoutput.ai/tutorials/openai-playground-guide (note website is still a work in progress just got it going bear with me haha)

However, you need access to the GPT-4 API which you have to request separately. So even if you have GPT-4 with chatGPT Plus you might not have access to GPT-4 through the playground/API.

Use a wrapper like TypingMind?
Not to be annoying, but have you tried asking chatGPT?
One important lesson I learned is to never ask ChatGPT about itself, it only seems to makes things up.