diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index f9b4cc0..fd08ece 100644
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from openai import OpenAI
 
 # Initialize the OpenAI client
 client = OpenAI(
+    api_key='EMPTY'
     base_url='https://hub.societyai.com/models/llama-3-2-3b/openai/v1',
 )