Is "paste your OpenAI API key" the new form of "paste your credit card number with exp/code" for example, to check if its been compromised?
You can generate a specific API key, and make sure to monitor it by setting a budget limit to it. They should explain this to people in their form to avoid people pasting their main key.
The original "Have I Been Pwned" ploy
Send me your data and I will check and see if anyone else has it
Now I have your data but that doesn't count
There was a guy who made a "has your SSH key been compromised? Paste your private key here" website as a joke, which lasted about a week until his low budget host killed it.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fx...
This shouldldve been a Plugin or Sign in with ChatGPT thing!
They do offer an OAuth method.
For those who do not want to paste OpenAIkeys to other peoples web pages, there are local solutions.
For example, these audiobook generators runs fully offline. https://github.com/Finrandojin/alexandria-audiobook https://github.com/senigami/audiobook-studio.pinokio https://github.com/topics/audiobook-generator