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Are their weird legal implications if you got a key like this from Bing Chat, considering it is part of Microsoft?

Imagine Microsoft's AI giving you such a key but support telling you you have no right to it, when it came from Microsoft itself! Probably covered in some ToS somewhere, but how awkward.

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I'm told that Microsoft and OpenAI have a partnership, but only a very few people at Microsoft have access to the source code and other information that OpenAI has. That means even Microsoft doesn't know the details of what is going on with ChatGPT.

not our problem

I mean that it doesn't change the validity of their point. MS effectively gave the user something that MS might normally accuse them of stealing. The user didn't dictate that MS be large and have uncoordinated parts, nor that MS enter into any particular deals with particular terms with particular vendors. The user's relationship is with MS, and at MS's own deliberate and even aggressivily persued insistence.

There are a variety of laws against social engineering, phishing, and other means of tricking companies and people into divulging authentication mechanisms that are then used to unlawfully bypass security mechanisms. I wouldn't assume, without talking to a lawyer first, that you'd be in the free and clear here.

probably not for real, but this was never a for real image

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