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• People are starting to steal GPT-4 access

• OpenAI faces a defamation lawsuit

• DeepMind goes deep into coding

• Are AI startups too easy to replicate?

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PIRATING OF GPT-4 API KEYS RAMPS UP

Argh, matey! The internet be like an open sea, so you best expect pirates. Even access to transformer models like GPT-4 isn’t safe from some high seas trickery.

OpenAI grants access to its models for corporations and researchers through API keys. The key is special access that permits two programs to speak with one another.

Using an API key to tap into GPT-4 costs money. Companies running the models as part of their tooling rack up a hefty bill.

Some people appear to be leaving their keys unprotected.

A member of the r/ChatGPT Discord named “Discodtehe” advertises stolen API keys that let members “borrow” GPT-4 access from OpenAI users with massive budgets.

But how are they getting these secret codes?

Well, the answer is less fun than you think. This user is going on Replit, a site for coding and scraping for API keys that people forget to conceal in their code.

Replit is aware of the issue and is working to help flag these errors for users to prevent this. OpenAI monitors unusual usage on accounts and is working to address the problem with more authentication efforts.

But that won’t make the problem go away.

More people will get desperate for access, and the scraping will get more sophisticated.

Let’s face it, incidents like these are inherent to the internet and represent the Mr. Hyde-side of AI development. Bad actors exist.

Security and preventative measures must become the new normal at companies like OpenAI. It’s all a part of scaling with all this extra cash on the line.

More Jack Sparrows are coming, so Sam Altman and crew should batten down the hatches.

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OPENAI IS SO SUED

It was only a matter of time before some lawyer worked up the courage and the case to hit OpenAI with a lawsuit.

ChatGPT cited a radio host in Georgia as the CFO behind an embezzlement scam. The host never worked for the organization and had nothing to do with the embezzlement case.

In response, the disc jockey lawyered up and decided to take OpenAI’s LLC arm to court.

Good luck, man. Let’s pretend for a second that the information ChatGPT provided went to more than one person who looked at this case.

Let’s also pretend that ChatGPT hallucinated the host's name in every output about who was responsible for the embezzlement.

Can anyone even point out the damage to this radio host’s reputation? The false information was never published.

In a court of law, the lawyer needs to prove that OpenAI acted with actual malice when ChatGPT spat out this response.

That’s hard to prove when a journalist gets pulled into a case like this. How can they show that a next-word predicting model intended to cause harm by spreading false information?

We didn’t even mention Section 230 and the presumption that it protects OpenAI from lawsuits like this, the same way it does for Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

It’s okay that someone wants to challenge an AI company on these grounds, which was bound to happen. But the actual legal fight is over copyrighted material in training data.

This lawsuit is as threatening as a plush unicorn.

Quick Nuggets

🤝 A new study examines how helpful ChatGPT is in practical situations

🧂 Bing gets salty when you try to search Chrome now

🌁 The AI boom is bringing developers back to San Francisco

🎯 Google aims to help teach and consult enterprises on how to use AI

🦆 Apple’s autocorrect is learning to cuss, duck yeah!

👥 AI startups struggle to get past the point where things are easy to copy

🤔 WordPress wants AI to start writing blog posts for you

🙋 GPT-4 is being introduced to government agencies by Microsoft

📷 Instagram wants to give you 30 personalities wrapped into one AI chatbot

🧠 DeepMind is embracing AI’s ability to help code with a fresh outlook

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