Recently I stumbled across OpenAI Moderations API which gives you a way to query OpenAI in order to detect if input text contains inappropriate content such as hate, violence, etc.

API is completly free - you just need to create an OpenAI account and issue a fresh API token.

Since I'm primary a Laravel PHP Framework developer, I decided to make a package which will provide a way to validate request payload fields against OpenAI Moderations API.

Installation

Standard Composer package installation:

composer require rcerljenko/laravel-openai-moderation

Usage

1. Publish config and translation files.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="RCerljenko\LaravelOpenAIModeration\LaravelOpenAIModerationServiceProvider"

1. Set your OpenAI API key and enable package via newly created config file => config/openai.php

2. Use provided rule with your validation rules.
   

<?php

namespace App\Http\Requests;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;
use RCerljenko\LaravelOpenAIModeration\Rules\OpenAIModeration;

class StoreText extends FormRequest
{
 /**
  * Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
  */
 public function authorize(): bool
 {
  return true;
 }

 /**
  * Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
  */
 public function rules(): array
 {
  return [
   'text' => ['required', 'string', new OpenAIModeration],
  ];
 }
}

And that's it! Your content can now be validated with powerfull (and yet free) OpenAI Moderations API.

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