I'm getting the below error "AuthenticationError: 401 Incorrect API key provided:"

I have created a openai api key and used it in .env local file now when i m trying to run npm run dev it is giving me error 401. Can you please help me resolve the isuue as i m new to AI things?

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Based on the screenshot, it looks like an invalid API key error.
As a quick sanity check, try generating a fresh API key in the OpenAI dashboard and updating your env/config with it (then restart your dev server).

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It appears in your obfuscated error message, that you are indeed passing an OpenAI project key. It includes a few letters of the suffix of the API key that you can cross-reference with the OpenAI platform site, to ensure that you are actually using the key you think you are using in your script.

I expect the API error to show you four characters at the end after all the asterisks, which it is not, so you might have an issue in copying the key, and will need to generate a new one in the platform site if you don’t have an accurate copy of it somewhere. Maybe you are “extracting” an extra semicolon at the end of your key?

“Rights” of a project are not suspected due to the API key value being outright rejected.

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