Is "paste your OpenAI API key" the new form of "paste your credit card number with exp/code" for example, to check if its been compromised?
For those who do not want to paste OpenAIkeys to other peoples web pages, there are local solutions.
For example, these audiobook generators runs fully offline. https://github.com/Finrandojin/alexandria-audiobook https://github.com/senigami/audiobook-studio.pinokio https://github.com/topics/audiobook-generator
You can generate a specific API key, and make sure to monitor it by setting a budget limit to it. They should explain this to people in their form to avoid people pasting their main key.