The other reason could be the copyright cases they are fighting in court. OAI was ordered to keep all records, including private. Not sure if it was lifted already.

And another could be EU requirements for age verification. AI can produce adult content.

There are may be other reasons, like to prevent using OAI models' output to train competing models.

> AI can produce adult content.

They should realize that anything can produce adult content. Anything.

No other reason? What about simply fraud protection. The same reason they switched new accounts to be where you have to pay to buy credits first instead of paying at the end of the month. There is a ton of fraud in this industry

No worries. Their competitors do not require KYC.

They all require paying for credits up front which is also an anti-fraud measure though which was my entire point ;)

Credit upfront as antifraud: perfectly fine. KYC: absolutely not.

And if you ran a company at OpenAI's scale then you can make that decision, but you don't

How much do you know about me?

Anyways, competitors do not require KYC for text transformation services, and that's how it should be.

You call OpenAI a "text transformation service" so clearly you are incompetent and your website backs that up

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