"A Developer Exploited an API Flaw to Provide Free Access to GPT-4"

Unconcerned with legal repercussions, a developer is attempting to reverse engineer Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in order to provide free access to popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) models such as OpenAI's GPT-4. The developer's project called GPT4Free exploded on GitHub over the past few days after links to it on Reddit went viral. GPT4Free appears to provide free and nearly unlimited access to GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, the predecessor to GPT-4. The developer, a computer science student, stated that reverse engineering has always been an area of interest to them. Instead of bypassing OpenAI's paywall, GPT4Free tricks the OpenAI API into believing that it is receiving requests from websites with paid OpenAI accounts. The researcher claims that GPT4Free only serves "educational purposes." There is expected to be a game of whack-a-mole between efforts such as GPT4Free and OpenAI that reflects the larger cybersecurity landscape. If the model-serving APIs do not become significantly more difficult to exploit, researchers and malicious actors will continue to take advantage of vulnerabilities. This article continues to discuss the exploitation of an API vulnerability to provide free access to GPT-4.

TechCrunch reports "A Developer Exploited an API Flaw to Provide Free Access to GPT-4"