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Re:Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't re... by deaux on Saturday October 25, 2025 @04:40PM (#45706806)
When they started doing this ID verification early this year, I expressed outrage on here, and was met by comments downplaying it saying "It's a given that soon the others will follow". I'm sure some of those came from people at OpenAI.

We're now at the end of the year and neither Google nor Anthropic nor any single other LLM provider does this. OpenAI does this because their CEO is SamA. That's it.

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Re:Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't re... by cool_man_bob on Saturday October 25, 2025 @08:56PM (#45708211)
> I'm sure some of those came from people at OpenAI.

Don’t underestimate the volume of useful idiots.

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Re:Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't re... by dlcarrier on Sunday October 26, 2025 @01:31AM (#45709390)
Google, on the other hand, gives me AI responses that I never asked for, even when I'm using a private browsing window, from a dynamic IP address.
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Re:Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't re... by tmaly on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @02:03PM (#45814688)
Didn't Sam try to make an iris scanning startup at some point?
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Re:Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't re... by 8474_s on Thursday November 06, 2025 @02:44AM (#45832558)
it was part of this crypto scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain)
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