← Back to context Comment by BeetleB 6 months ago Why does OpenAI require me to verify my "organization" (which requires my state issued ID) to use o3? 9 comments BeetleB Reply valleyer 6 months ago Don't bother anyway. There are lots of cases of people trying and failing to go through the process, and there is no way to try a second time.https://community.openai.com/t/session-expired-verify-organi...https://community.openai.com/t/callback-from-persona-id-chec...https://community.openai.com/t/verification-issue-on-second-...https://community.openai.com/t/verification-not-working-and-...https://community.openai.com/t/organization-verfication-fail...https://community.openai.com/t/help-organization-could-not-b...https://community.openai.com/t/to-verify-an-organization-acc... BeetleB 6 months ago Yikes! Indeed, I won't bother. bearjaws 6 months ago Prevent Deepseek R2 being trained on it piskov 6 months ago 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 ivanmontillam 6 months ago I'm an average Ivan, and I got access. BeetleB 6 months ago 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. 1 reply → yyhhsj0521 6 months ago It's most likely for regulation compliance, instead of a sincere attempt to block anyone from training on them. 1 reply →
valleyer 6 months ago Don't bother anyway. There are lots of cases of people trying and failing to go through the process, and there is no way to try a second time.https://community.openai.com/t/session-expired-verify-organi...https://community.openai.com/t/callback-from-persona-id-chec...https://community.openai.com/t/verification-issue-on-second-...https://community.openai.com/t/verification-not-working-and-...https://community.openai.com/t/organization-verfication-fail...https://community.openai.com/t/help-organization-could-not-b...https://community.openai.com/t/to-verify-an-organization-acc... BeetleB 6 months ago Yikes! Indeed, I won't bother.
bearjaws 6 months ago Prevent Deepseek R2 being trained on it piskov 6 months ago 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 ivanmontillam 6 months ago I'm an average Ivan, and I got access. BeetleB 6 months ago 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. 1 reply → yyhhsj0521 6 months ago It's most likely for regulation compliance, instead of a sincere attempt to block anyone from training on them. 1 reply →
piskov 6 months ago 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 ivanmontillam 6 months ago I'm an average Ivan, and I got access. BeetleB 6 months ago 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. 1 reply → yyhhsj0521 6 months ago It's most likely for regulation compliance, instead of a sincere attempt to block anyone from training on them. 1 reply →
BeetleB 6 months ago 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. 1 reply →
yyhhsj0521 6 months ago It's most likely for regulation compliance, instead of a sincere attempt to block anyone from training on them. 1 reply →
Don't bother anyway. There are lots of cases of people trying and failing to go through the process, and there is no way to try a second time.
https://community.openai.com/t/session-expired-verify-organi...
https://community.openai.com/t/callback-from-persona-id-chec...
https://community.openai.com/t/verification-issue-on-second-...
https://community.openai.com/t/verification-not-working-and-...
https://community.openai.com/t/organization-verfication-fail...
https://community.openai.com/t/help-organization-could-not-b...
https://community.openai.com/t/to-verify-an-organization-acc...
Yikes! Indeed, I won't bother.
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
I'm an average Ivan, and I got access.
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.
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