Once you have created an OpenAI account and provided a payment method you will be able to generate API keys for the [OpenAI platform](https://platform.openai.com). Once logged in you have an "API keys" entry in the menu on the left side. The OpenAI API key is a sequence of numbers and letters starting with "sk-". < [[Hands-on LLMs]]/[[6 OpenAI API]] > [[prompt injections]]