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Comment by unsupp0rted

16 hours ago

Doesn'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.

https://developers.openai.com/codex/concepts/cyber-safety

https://chatgpt.com/cyber

I don't like this trend, but I get why they require it. The alternative seems to just ban cybersecurity-related questions.

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

  • Are you in the UK? I've not had this happen to me (I'm not in the UK) so I'm wondering if the Online Safety Act has affected this, as it has with other products.

They flatout gate any API access of the main models behind Persona ID verification. Entirely.