Comment by aniviacat
21 hours ago
I was just about to change from OpenAI to Anthropic, however when signing up I get this message:
> Unfortunately, Claude is not available to new users right now. We're working hard to expand our availability soon.
That's unfortunate timing.
I wonder why that is...
it was like that when I signed up in july last year too. Just waited a couple of days and I was able to signup.
You can always use z.ai or minimax
They ask a phone number to sign up. WTF?
I signed up with openai a while ago and I didn’t need to provide any phone number…. I wanna delete my open ai account, but then I cannot use claude without a phone?
It’s a way to mitigate bot accounts. Arguably not the best way, arguably not the right cost/benefit, but all of these services see massive bot traffic and are in a constant battle.
If you sign up with a Google account you don't need to give them a phone number. I realize the irony here.
When did you sign up for OpenAI? They been requiring a phone sign the very first betas
Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's unusual and harmful to privacy to require a phone number.
I’m not disagreeing with you but I highly suggest getting something like a burner number. Google Voice and Twilio usually work for me, but sometimes they are flagged VOIP and blocked.
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Unfortunately it became so common we don’t even care anymore, one of those things that normalized
Wow, seriously? I signed my team up for it Thursday.
WTF?! Really? Then the bubble is bursting already.
It's not the bubble, it's the DoD
TIL capacity limits mean that the bubble is bursting. Peak HN user logic.
ok but consider my mom asked me yesterday, "have you heard of claude?"