Add support for OpenAI API keys

[jackoneschuk]

ChatGPT is unlikely to remain free forever so support for uploading an OpenAI API key is necessary for this browser extension to remain usable in the long run. As an added benefit this will address issues #108 and #112 since the paid OpenAI API is not experiencing the same downtime/restrictions as ChatGPT while providing similar functionality at de minimis cost (fractions of a cent per search).

[wong2]

ChatGPT doesn't have a paid api yet

[jackoneschuk]

Yes, the GPT-3 models are quite similar to ChatGPT though so could add option to query those

[wong2]

GPT-3 is not as good as ChatGPT in this case, so I'll wait for ChatGPT official API

[axsddlr]

chatgpt will not remain free. Also likely chatgpt engine will be retro-added to gpt-3 models openai have been creating

[jackoneschuk]

Agree with @axsddlr, also there are many examples of cases especially for a single text prompt (vs a back and forth discussion) where GPT-3 outperforms ChatGPT because of the restrictions OpenAI placed on ChatGPT @wong2.

[Kcin1993]

It is currently difficult to achieve the same level of experience as ChatGPT with the completion API that is available from OpenAI.

For example, on ChatGPT, it is possible to provide explanations for questions that have been asked before, and the content of these explanations can be coherent. However, the completion API is limited by the max_tokens, which means that the content of the question cannot be too long, making it difficult to achieve a coherent experience.

If there is a way to overcome this, I am also interested. Otherwise, we will really have to wait for the API related to ChatGPT to be available.

[kertser]

May be you can summarize the previous answer and provide this summary as a context to the model to match the max_tokens size?

[yodaluca23]

Wouldn't this also fix us having to pass Cloudflare pretty much check every time we use it, since going through the API is official and doesn't have Cloudflare checks, rather than what we have now, which I'm not sure how it works, but it uses the user's website client instead...

[wong2]

@yodaluca23 That's right

[wong2]

I'm planning to implement this, as ChatGPT API is coming

[Echoleung]

GPT-3 is not as good as ChatGPT in this case, so I'll wait for ChatGPT official API

The ChatGPT official API leaked.

[wong2]

@Echoleung I know, this extension already supported it.

[0xdevalias]

The ChatGPT official API leaked.

I know, this extension already supported it.

@Echoleung @wong2 Curious.. where did the official API leak? Tried googling but not managing to come up with any good answers.

Actually.. guessing this is it?

• https://github.com/acheong08/ChatGPT/blob/main/src/revChatGPT/Official.py#L13

Edit: According to these sources, sounds like it's already been taken down :(

• https://github.com/acheong08/ChatGPT/issues/523
  • https://github.com/acheong08/ChatGPT/issues/523#issuecomment-1414524642

[yodaluca23]

When I select the Offical API and select the "text-chat-davinci-002-20221122" option, it works, and I have no payment info connected to my account, is their some free credits? Or is it unlimitedly free? Please Let me know, thanks!

[Kcin1993]

@yodaluca23 No it's not free. You can check your OpenAI account. There is a credit of 18$ for 3 months.

[yodaluca23]

@yodaluca23 No it's not free. You can check your OpenAI account. There is a credit of 18$ for 3 months.

Thank you, I figured it out here: there should be a notice somewhere that everyone does have $18 in free trial credits… And that this will use them if you enable the API option…

[mreduar]

ChatGPT doesn't have a paid api yet

Perhaps this issue should be reopened? An official and fast API is already available, I have tested it in visual studio code with my api key and I must say that the response times are almost instantaneous. I wish it could be configured with this extension because it is annoying to be passing the cloudflare check every 5 minutes.