Comment by Beijinger
10 months ago
"To that end, I never use ChatGPT.com or other normal-person frontends for accessing LLMs because they are harder to control. Instead, I typically access the backend UIs provided by each LLM service, which serve as a light wrapper over the API functionality which also makes it easy to port to code if necessary."
How do you do this? Do you have to be on a paid plan for this?
I think they're talking about the Sandbox/Playground/Editor thingy that almost all companies who expose APIs also offer to quickly try out API features. For OpenAI it's https://platform.openai.com/playground/prompts?models=gpt-4...., Anthropic has https://console.anthropic.com/workbench and so on.
If you log into the API backend, there is usually a link to the UI. For OpenAI/ChatGPT, it's https://platform.openai.com/playground
This is independent of ChatGPT+. You do need to have a credit card attached but you only pay for your usage.