alt Hacker NewsDoesn't OpenAI get mad if you ask cybersecurity questions and force you to upload a government ID, otherwise they'll silently route you to a less capable model?
> Developers and security professionals doing cybersecurity-related work or similar activity that could be mistaken by automated detection systems may have requests rerouted to GPT-5.2 as a fallback.
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merlindru • today at 12:42 AM
Anthropic has started to ask for IDs for use of their products period
I don't like that trend. I get why they're doing it, but I don't like it
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deaux • yesterday at 10:36 PM
They flatout gate any API access of the main models behind Persona ID verification. Entirely.
I don't like this trend, but I get why they require it. The alternative seems to just ban cybersecurity-related questions.