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Alright but we don't know enough here to evaluate the legitimacy of the request from OpenAI. Very little to go on.
Given the relationship between MS, GitHub, and OpenAI, do we think there will be a fair analysis or review? Is GitHub still independent enough or not?
I didn't know about this project. Thanks to the takedown notice I'll immediatelly clone it and start using it. Thank you OpenAI for playing a role in me finding an alternative!
Go for it, it’s not a GPT4 alternative anyway. Just an confusingly named project that muddies the waters.
GPT4Free is an API reverse engineering and proxy project which exposes an API to use GPT4 by proxy through GPT4 based services like the search engine Phind.
Essentially you are using the reverse engineered services OpenAI credits to access GPT4 instead of using your own OpenAI account.
Here's the project description from the README:
Have you ever come across some amazing projects that you couldn't use just because you didn't have an OpenAI API key?
We've got you covered! This repository offers reverse-engineered third-party APIs for GPT-4/3.5, sourced from various websites. You can simply download this repository, and use the available modules, which are designed to be used just like OpenAI's official package. Unleash ChatGPT's potential for your projects, now! You are welcome ; ).
https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/tree/7ef85f46716bb39f1e19... last commit before "we got a takedown" was in README
Predictable. You could just come up with an original name and be fine. "GPT4" obviously means the OpenAI product to people. For those ootl, here's the previous thread where OP was given a lot of advice from the HN community to change the name https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608437
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these seem like two different projects: gpt4all and gpt4free, by different people.
GPT4Free is an API reverse engineering and proxy project which exposes an API to use the real GPT4 by proxy through GPT4 based services like the search engine Phind.
Predictable. You could just come up with an original name and be fine. "GPT4" obviously means the OpenAI product to people. For those ootl, here's the previous thread where OP was given a lot of advice from the HN community to change the name https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608437
To the CrabLang folks,: this is why you care about trademarks. So when someone does this you can protect your project from scammers.
EDIT I might be conflating GPT4all with this… which doesn't make the situation any better and kinda proves my point. This type of scam is confusing and deceptive. And this one seems actively malignant.
https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/tree/7ef85f46716bb39f1e19... last commit before "we got a takedown" was in README
Thanks for the link, seems weird that they've nuked the rest of the README instead of just posting that update at the top.
OpenAI issues DMCA to GitHub, GitHub passes it along to the user, user... has the right to ignore it and leave all of the content up and update the README with a poem?