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OpenAI Forum (events/resources): https://forum.openai.com/

Personal note (from real experience) When I started here, I had strong support from leaders and other developers—even through failures. I’m grateful. But as the community grows, collaboration only works with 100% security and trust. This is business and engineering, not a game: protect your IP, redact by default, and keep sensitive issues in the official support lane.

Very important: Respect!

STRATEGY - Reading - Learning - Working - Support (ask but read first) - Safety - Ebgineering wirt plan - Tests - Governance (check your area) -’ Service

Every from us is indivividuell, please respeft that!

Alone or in a team? Your choice!

In a community/team are around the world ethics rules, as in a siciety.

Religion, county, your position, schools or privat intresting - > Accept and that means aby better/wronger human!

When you are in a community, you has responsability → for the results too.

Everything is for the best OUTCOMES!

Agent systems are OK, but human data Agents are not ethically!

Also - Forward, and make the future better!

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