Unable to delete my fine-tuned model

API
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I figured out why some configurations could delete and others couldn’t in a brainwave that was “duh, obvious given the error message”:

Send the API key, along with matching project AND organization, in the delete call.

This Python SDK script will

  • use the model name you hard-code
  • dump out your environment variables set in the openai client.
  • Then uses the model endpoint to make sure the model exists, with info.
  • Then deletes only if you type 999
  • Then checks the model endpoint again.

The environment variable values to set are self-documenting:

import openai
client = openai.OpenAI()                 # Set environment variables first
print(f" org:  {client.organization}\n",  # OPENAI_ORG_ID
      f"proj: {client.project}\n",       # OPENAI_PROJECT_ID
      f"key:  {client.api_key}\n")       # OPENAI_API_KEY
model_to_delete = "gpt-3.5-turbo-0125"        # YOUR ft: MODEL ID (to lazy for UI)
try:
    status1 = client.models.retrieve(model_to_delete)
    print("retrieved model info from API")
    for key, val in status1:
        print(f"{key}: {val}")
except Exception as e:
    raise ValueError(e)
choice = input("*"*40+"\nif all info looks correct, "
               "enter '999' to irreversibly delete the model: ")
if choice == "999":
    try:
        status2 = client.models.delete(model_to_delete)
    except Exception as e:
        print('-- delete operation failed!!')
        print(e)
try:
    status3 = print(client.models.retrieve(model_to_delete))
    print("Model is still there!!")
except Exception as e:
    print("Model is gone, call returned error!!")