I think you might want to correct ChatGPT to just GPT. As far as I know, there is no public API access point for the ChatGPT. OpenAI davinci model that you're likely using is based on InstructGPT ( a different GPT based beast ). Also, I would be somewhat worried about this thing racking up massive bills for the larger files.

EDIT: okay, according to replies there is more than meets the eye

Looks like it actually _is_ using ChatGPT: https://www.npmjs.com/package/chatgpt

jclem

This package is using GPT-3 via the “ChatGPT” export from that module, which is—somewhat misleadingly—not ChatGPT, but GPT-3.

survirtual

That package recommends using a ChatGPT proxy. This proxy has the ability to access ChatGPT in a way that OpenAI hasn’t been able to stop, but it requires a configuration file that is not open source.

Everyone using this proxy needs to provide an OpenAI ChatGPT access token to the server. Let me break this down:

Using the ChatGPT npm package enables an opaque third party access to your credentials to use ChatGPT — or exactly what a botnet / social media manipulation operation would need / want for a convincing bot. They just have to distribute load among all the active access tokens they’ve collected from users.

DO NOT use this library.

DO NOT trust code from authors who either don’t see this obvious vector or are in on it.

To recommend using an opaque third party proxy with no encryption is not acceptable. This lets someone peep into your conversations with the bot on top of the other malicious uses with credential hijacking. And while OpenAI is peeping as well, they are at least using the data to advance AI and most researchers have a deep relationship with the ethics of their field.

Here is the repo in question: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/chatgpt-api