diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2a7a749..d677661 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ If you want to add payments to your bot and create profitable business – write
 - *15 Mar 2023*: Added message streaming. Now you don't have to wait until the whole message is ready, it's streamed to Telegram part-by-part (watch demo)
 - *9 Mar 2023*: Now you can easily create your own Chat Modes by editing `config/chat_modes.yml`
 - *8 Mar 2023*: Added voice message recognition with [OpenAI Whisper API](https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis). Record a voice message and ChatGPT will answer you!
-- *2 Mar 2023*: Added support of [ChatGPT API](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat/introduction). It's enabled by default and can be disabled with `use_chatgpt_api` option in config. Don't forget to **rebuild** you docker image (`--build`).
+- *2 Mar 2023*: Added support of [ChatGPT API](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat/introduction).
 
 ## Bot commands
 - `/retry` – Regenerate last bot answer
diff --git a/bot/config.py b/bot/config.py
index b0280d4..9c5de4c 100644
--- a/bot/config.py
+++ b/bot/config.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ config_env = dotenv.dotenv_values(config_dir / "config.env")
 # config parameters
 telegram_token = config_yaml["telegram_token"]
 openai_api_key = config_yaml["openai_api_key"]
-use_chatgpt_api = config_yaml.get("use_chatgpt_api", True)
 allowed_telegram_usernames = config_yaml["allowed_telegram_usernames"]
 new_dialog_timeout = config_yaml["new_dialog_timeout"]
 enable_message_streaming = config_yaml.get("enable_message_streaming", True)
diff --git a/config/config.example.yml b/config/config.example.yml
index 9064fb3..2af9698 100644
--- a/config/config.example.yml
+++ b/config/config.example.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 telegram_token: ""
 openai_api_key: ""
-use_chatgpt_api: true
 allowed_telegram_usernames: []  # if empty, the bot is available to anyone. pass a username string to allow it and/or user ids as positive integers and/or channel ids as negative integers
 new_dialog_timeout: 600  # new dialog starts after timeout (in seconds)
 return_n_generated_images: 1