diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index 9dc333b..e563183 100644
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ 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",
 )