Can you please add more details on OPENAI_API_KEY env var in Readme

[AI-Zebra]

The UI has OPENAI_API_KEY set to sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Please can you explain in readme, what is its purpose? How can we generate new API keys for different teams using this deployment?

[nmfretz]

Hi @AI-Zebra, thanks for the suggestion to clarify the OPEN_API_KEY environment variable in the readme.

The OPEN_API_KEY environment variable for the llama-gpt-ui container originates from Mckay Wrigley's Chatbot UI (which our UI is forked from). Chatbot UI is an alternative user interface to ChatGPT, so the purpose of the API KEY is to authenticate and interact with OpenAI's chat models.

For LlamaGPT, we've modified the UI to showcase only self-hosted models, so there is no need for a valid OpenAI API key. We included the key as a dummy string to retain compatibility with the original Chatbot UI setup.

Definitely check out Chatbot UI if you are looking for a user interface for OpenAI chat models. You can generate API keys from https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys

[AI-Zebra]

Thanks a lot @nmfretz for the quick answer..