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I wonder how many different ways people use to do basic ChatGPT queries.

My preferred method is to run a WhatsApp bot, this way I can easily use the LLM also on my phone. And on a computer I just use WhatsApp web, which I keep running anyways. Also this method natively supports iterated conversations.

That, plus some scripts for repetitive stuff.

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If you haven't heard, there's an official iOS app[1], so that's probably a far more efficient/private alternative to a custom bot.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openai-chatgpt/id6448311069

That's sounds great! Can you share some docs on WhatsApp bot? IIRC, those APIs were only available to businesses and not individuals.

The OpenAI API is available to everyone. I've spent well over $100 just trying various things out over the past two months. I was not trying to save on it, you can do quite a lot even on $10, just make sure to do some napkin maths before you query som endpoint a lot of times. For example it's a lot easier to spend a lot on Dall-e than it is on GTP-3.5

Sorry for not being clear - I was referring to the Whatsapp Bot API :)

Ah. The thing that I'm using is running some kind of headless Chrome that runs the WhatsApp Web: https://github.com/pedroslopez/whatsapp-web.js

From what I understand this might get killed by Facebook at some point as they never approved this method.

What was the issue with the official API? https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/

It's not available for personal use and requires business verification if I understand correctly: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/overview#terms...

No idea, didn't write it, but it Just Works.

Only wimps use APIs.

To have an LLM on my android I prefer to use Termux for this, since whatsapp and their api is a hassle.

How do you do this? I am interested to learn more about this. Any documentation would be awesome

Try a Google search for GitHub projects that do that. Or really any other GPT idea. People are building many copies of everything, so I'm not even going to recommend the one that I'm using because there's probably a better one already :). It's simple code so you can also modify it to your liking.

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