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0 pointsweird-eye-issue6mo ago0 comments

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

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egorfine6mo ago

No worries. Their competitors do not require KYC.

weird-eye-issueOP6mo ago

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

egorfine6mo ago

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

weird-eye-issueOP6mo ago

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

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egorfine6mo ago

No worries. Their competitors do not require KYC.

weird-eye-issueOP6mo ago

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

egorfine6mo ago

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

weird-eye-issueOP6mo ago

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

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