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But you created a throwaway account specifically to reply in this thread?

Unless your company really has nothing to hide, it's easy to accidentally dump a company secret or an API key in a chat session. Of course if everyone is aware of this and constantly careful then you may be OK.

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That's because accounts get shadow banned all the time when people get upset when you point out hard truths.

If you're copy pasting API keys or such into ANYTHING, you probably shouldn't be a programmer to begin with.

It's like people who use root account key/secret credentials in their codebase. It's not AWSs fault you got a large bill or got hacked, its because you're dumb.

I regularly say shit that pisses people off here and I have never been shadow banned. It sounds like your "hard truths" are something other than just "hard truths", and/or you have a persecution complex.

Your Karma is over 7000, if you get downvoted your stuff is still visible.

Getting downvoted to gray isn't a "shadow ban" at all. It is however a signal that others didn't find your comment worthwhile.

if you didn't use throwaway accounts your karma would presumably be much higher?

I posted my openAI token into a GitHub issue today thinking I'd just kill it right away, which I did but there was already an email from openAI letting me know that it was noticed that my token had become public and was thus revoked.

Nice so avoiding getting shadowbanned on hackernews is fine but avoiding getting sued is petty ?

If your code has API keys in it, you have bigger problems than ChatGPT.

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