Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p>People Are <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Pirating" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pirating</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GPT4" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GPT4</span></a> By Scraping Exposed <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/API" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>API</span></a> Keys<br />Why pay for $150,000 worth of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> access when you could just steal it?<br />The pirate, who goes by the handle <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Discodtehe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Discodtehe</span></a> appears to have been scraping exposed API keys for longer . In one Discord message from March, they wrote “the other day I scraped repl.it and found over 1000 working openai api keys.” <br /><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kkky/people-pirating-gpt4-scraping-openai-api-keys" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vice.com/en/article/93kkky/peo</span><span class="invisible">ple-pirating-gpt4-scraping-openai-api-keys</span></a></p>