The first time I reported the problem, OpenAI didn’t really give me a solution, it just gave me a credit so I hadn’t consumed my app. My app is programmed to use the most economical model gpt-3.5-turbo. My users do not exceed 50. The implemented model is gpt-3.5-turbo, but requests appear with oth…

[image] alchise: placed it at a higher level in the App If you put a key in user software, it will get stolen and abused. Evidence. You need to set up a backend service that validates user accounts and instances of app installs on devices.

Thank you for your prompt advice. I placed the key in an environment variable at the document root level, but the misuse continued. Do you think the abuse will be solved if I create a database in Firebase and save and read the key from there?

I can recommend this thread to you on the topic: [image] OpenAI's "bring your own key" policy API I’m interested in potentially building an application where users can enter their own OpenAI API key into my application and use the service that way. This key may be stored …

Never store your keys on client side. For now the best option is to revoke your keys. If you’ve been collecting diagnostics, usage info correctly from your app, it can tell you which of your customer(s) have figured out access to the API key. Not saying that it’ll be of help, but you can then disab…

Excessive use of the API and interaction with unprogrammed models in the App

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frank_behr September 30, 2023, 5:23am 5

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