Re:Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabili...
by fragmede on Sunday June 21, 2026 @03:58PM
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Fun fact, if you're celebrity you get a special customer support phone number at most major corporations EG Apple because "Hi I'm Taylor Swift" gets tried a lot.
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Re:Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabili...
by miki123211 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @04:46PM
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How do they get the customer support number to that celebrity?
E.G> when Taylor Swift wants to call Apple right now, how would she know what number to call?
Incidentally, https://people.com/pope-leo-was-hung-up-on-by-bank-customer-...
Re:Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabili...
by tmp10423288442 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @06:56PM
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I presume you get connected somehow when opening up a high-value account at a participating bank. If that account has some sort of concierge service, I presume that’s how special numbers for other companies might be distributed.
Pope Leo is not that rich, and had lived outside the US for many years (he came up in the church hierarchy of Latin America), so it’s not that surprising that he ran into this situation.