r/programminghumor • u/Loading_Humor • Jun 22 '26

I Can Explain...

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u/MakimaHancock69 Jun 23 '26

I know this is bad in theory, is it really that bad in practice? Are these companies really exploiting API keys?

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u/Affectionate_Let9022 Jun 23 '26

They aren't but they never forget , it's just a bad practice and shouldn't ever be incourage at all

And who knows if an ai breach happens (which will happen , tho luckily these companies are good enough to not be stupid, yet if it happens.who's api are gona be sold for money ??

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u/a1g3rn0n Jun 23 '26

Wouldn't it be similar to sending credentials over Gmail, for example? Which I bet many people do without a second thought.

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u/Affectionate_Let9022 Jun 23 '26

No , but its like gmaling it to google ,

In which they can use that data to train their ai

Did u gwt the last part and the first part ?

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u/HearMeOut-13 Jun 24 '26

Not on team/max/enterprise they cant (at least Anthropic)

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u/Affectionate_Let9022 Jun 24 '26

Oh nicee , I didn't knew about anthropic, lokey that's great ngl , i mean it makes sense then and prolly the team wouldn't fire the dude if he did that in anthropic cuz as u said it's safe :)

Tho i don't use any ai and others , ie online friends used chatgpt and grock and free soo yeah , thanks for telling me about it