I think they're probably more concerned about fake accounts and people finding ways to get free stuff.

I actually think they’re worried about foreign actors using it for…

- generating synthetic data to train their own models

- hacking and exploitation research

etc

What free stuff? It requires a paid API.

With no intention to tarnish your pure world view, paid services with low registration requirements are ideal for account laundering and subscription fraud with stolen credit cards

China is training their AI models using ChatGPT. They want to stop or slow that down.

Why? It seems counterproductive given OpenAI's mission statement: "We are building safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome."

Because OpenAI's actual mission statement is "money, and lots of it".

Yeah. I think they need money to deliver AGI

> which, after using it, fair! It found a zero day

Source?

Recently, Sean Heelan wrote a post "How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation". It might be what they are referring to.

Link: https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-...

Yep, that’s the one!

I don't like using these KYC companies that I've never heard of either but I'd guess it's going to become a lot more common (especially for API use) as the models get more powerful.

Bit strange to see such new accounts already priming everyone to think this is acceptable and normal, which it isn't, hence OA having started doing this months ago and still not a single other provider has it, despite offering just as powerful models. It's not like Google and Anthropic have launched their own Worldcoin either.

Especially what does it have to do with that "these models are getting more powerful"?

Basically the earmark of a narrative OpenAI loves to push covertly, and often overtly. I wouldn't be shocked if these are bots.

There is an ISO standard for digital ID, the same one used by the TSA, and it’s coming to the web soon! Human verification is going to continue to grow in importance.

which standard is that?