Use GPT API for Free to Write Novels

Author(s): zhaozhiming

Originally published on Towards AI.

Recently, OpenAI announced a reduction in the barrier to entry for using the web-based ChatGPT, allowing users without an account to access it for free. This is excellent news, as it means we can access ChatGPT for free through a web interface. However, compared to API access, this approach lacks flexibility; with API, developers can write code to automate interactions with ChatGPT. Today, we’ll explore how to leverage OpenAI’s free access and convert it into API usage, enabling us to write a novel with it.

OpenAI recently announced that users can access ChatGPT without registering, using the GPT-3.5 model for free. This is a very powerful Large Language Model (LLM), capable of handling most tasks in day-to-day work. However, unregistered users miss out on additional features such as saving and viewing chat history, sharing chats, and unlocking other features like voice conversations and custom instructions. More information can be found here.

Although OpenAI offers a free version of the web-based ChatGPT, using it via API can be more convenient, allowing us to do more. There’s an open-source tool in the community that can convert the web-based ChatGPT into an API format. This tool is called ChatGPT, which uses reverse proxy to provide… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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