The proprietor of GPT4free, a free GPT4 AI chatbot, could possibly be in some authorized scorching water as OpenAI has threatened to take him to courtroom. Why’s that, you surprise? As a result of his chatbot permits you to use ChatGPT4 (opens in new tab) with out paying for it.
GPT4free circumvents ChatGPT4’s $20-a-month paywall (opens in new tab) by pulling queries from websites that use ChatGPT4’s API (opens in new tab), like Quora and You.com. It piggybacks solutions from websites that pay to make use of the API licenses.
Developer Xtekky advised Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab) that OpenAI despatched him a letter demanding he take down his Github challenge in 5 days or face authorized penalties. Nonetheless, the developer would not assume he is accountable for what others do with scripts from his GitHub repo. Moreover, he stated OpenAI should not go after him since he is not connecting on to ChatGPT4’s API. His scripts simply question the websites that do, and OpenAI ought to contact these websites as an alternative of concentrating on him.
“OpenAI may additionally attain out to the websites and warn/notify them and in collaboration come to me and do a takedown, however it appears that evidently this solely comes from OpenAI, they usually principally declare that I’m instantly attacking them,” Xtekky stated.
As Tom’s {Hardware} factors out, each time you run a question on GPT4free, the websites that pay for an API license from OpenAI are primarily doing the work without spending a dime, lacking out on potential advert income from you visiting the positioning.
“One may obtain the identical simply opening tabs of the websites. I can open tabs of Phind, You, and so forth. on my browser and spam requests,” Xtekky stated. “My repo simply does it in an easier manner.” He says he has eliminated scripts that use the websites phind.com, ora.sh, and writesonic.com at their request.
“I consider they [OpenAI] contacted me earlier than to strain me into deleting the repo myself,” stated Xtekky. “However the best manner needs to be an precise official DMCA, via GitHub.”
Xtekky additionally stated that since his code has already unfold throughout the web, deletion of his Github repo can be “insignificant.” He plans to maneuver his chatbot to a unique area and rebrand it as “gf4.” The Github for GPT4free continues to be up and operating for now.