Comment by BeetleB

6 days ago

Why does OpenAI require me to verify my "organization" (which requires my state issued ID) to use o3?

Prevent Deepseek R2 being trained on it

  • If only there were people with multiple passports or, I don’t know, Kyrgyzstan.

    How exactly will passport check prevent any training?

    At most this will block API access to your average Ivan, not a state actor

    • Yeah, I just don't see myself using o3 when I have Gemini-2.5 Pro. I don't recall if Google Cloud verified my ID in the past, though. Still, no need to let yet another organization have my data if I'm not getting something better in return.

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    • It's most likely for regulation compliance, instead of a sincere attempt to block anyone from training on them.