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Or maybe they don't care if users use unreleased plugins because there's no security implications.


Then there would be no need for an approval process. So likely there are security implications, just not ones that we are aware of. Otherwise someone would have surely optimized out the approval process because it costs time & effort, so money.


Or it's merely a matter of curation and OpenAI would rather only display a plugin if it knows it's going to work, rather than any plugin written in three minutes by a high schooler that just turns your text into a spooky zalgo?


You want to curate what your users see, and check that new users coming in don't have their first experience be terrible plugins as they may not come back.




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