Recycle_Bot

Learn how to recycle anything! Upload an image, add your location and silly personality, and get a response straight from GPT.

Note: using a .jpg or .png image is recommended. Limited file conversion is implemented, but not all file types are supported.

Setup

• Generate an OpenAI api key for use with Recycle_Bot
• Setup a virtual environment
  • Windows: run python -m venv openai-env in the main directory
  • Mac: run python3 -m venv openai-env in the main directory
• After you've created a virtual environment, activate it with one of the following
  • Windows: openai-env\Scripts\activate
  • Mac: source openai-env/bin/activate
• Install dependencies
  • Run pip install --upgrade openai Flask requests Werkzeug
• Run app.py to load Recycle_Bot!

Recycle_Bot Features

Basic Functions

• Upload images and receive realtime responses from GPT-4 Turbo
  • Plug-in support for other models is available by editing defaults.py
• Adaptive location to tailor instructions to local recycling programs
• Customizable personality with continued accuracy
• Robust hand-crafted prompt, keeping responses concise and helpful (even with absurd or malicious parameters)
• Dynamic prompting template, avoiding hardcoded settings
• Vision API token optimization to ~300 per check

Quality of Life Upgrades

• Saves API key and settings for future use
• GUI input for API key
• Support for .jpg and .png images, with limited support for converting other file types
• Popup sidebar menu for settings input

Security protections

• Simple prompt protection against malicious injection attacks
• Limited error handling
• Debugging and cost quantification system enabling token and cost tracking (currently disabled to avoid UI clutter)