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Rieux_n_Tarrou t1_j84vns3 wrote

Serious question: how are you using chatGPT programmatically? As I understand, open AI only has GPT3 accessible via API. ChatGPT is only accessible through chat.OpenAI.com, There is a waiting list to access the chat. GPT API

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SatoshiNotMe t1_j856nri wrote

A lot of people just write “using ChatGPT” in their app headlines when in fact they are actually using the GPT3 API. I will generously interpret this as being due to this genuine confusion :)

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Rieux_n_Tarrou t1_j85le82 wrote

Yes it is confusing and I don’t think openAI is incentivized to clear up the confusion 😄

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MattRix t1_j872nhe wrote

Some people also figured out that if you pass in the right model id to the regular GPT API, you get ChatGPT (not sure if this has been blocked since it was discovered).

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beautifoolstupid t1_j8862or wrote

The underlying base model (GPT3.5) is the same. ChatGPT is just finetuned for dialogue which is not needed for such apps tbh.

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Rieux_n_Tarrou t1_j89d04y wrote

GPT3.5 is not a model that's available in the API. GPT3 davinci is the most powerful model available.

Case in point: there's a sign-up for the wait-list to get the chatGPT API

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beautifoolstupid t1_j89ige0 wrote

da-vinci-003 (instructGPT) uses GPT3.5 as mentioned by OpenAI employees on twitter. ChatGPT is just finetuned for dialogue. If you use the playground, there isn’t much difference in the output. In fact, da-vinci is more suited for building applications IMO.

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EuphoricPenguin22 t1_j86kg2j wrote

There's a NPM package that provides an unofficial API for ChatGPT, but you have to jump through all of the hoops to get signed in before it can snag the necessary credentials.

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Rieux_n_Tarrou t1_j89cidt wrote

I think I've seen what you're talking about. But are you sure it's ACTUALLY hitting chatGPT? (should be pretty easy to verify...if it's using something like a headless browser or something)

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EuphoricPenguin22 t1_j89zm8l wrote

Yep; it used to access chat.openai.com and used Puppeteer (headless Chrome) to semi-automatically traverse the login. They're claiming now that they have some sort of more direct access (not GPT-3 API) and that method is obsolete, so I'm not sure what it's doing now.

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