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		squeaky-clean on March 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs It's the bearer token authorization method. Pretty standard nowadays for many APIs. https://swagger.io/docs/specification/authentication/bearer-...

pbreit on March 1, 2023 [–]

API keys have been around for a long time without needing the prefix. I could understand the Bearer prefix when using JWT-style tokens. I could also see using it if there were indeed an Oauth flow involved. But in this case just seems like a nuisance.

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