{"id":48289009,"user":"ericmay","time":1779850740,"time_ago":"9 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Why do they use a VPN?","comments":[{"id":48289242,"user":"esseph","time":1779852589,"time_ago":"9 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Chinese state firewall?","comments":[{"id":48289443,"user":"weird-eye-issue","time":1779854251,"time_ago":"9 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Well not just that, OpenAI explicitly blocks them","comments":[{"id":48293354,"user":"ericmay","time":1779885572,"time_ago":"9 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Blocks Chinese users or blocks VPNs? Are they the only one?","comments":[{"id":48293436,"user":"weird-eye-issue","time":1779886014,"time_ago":"9 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/supported-countries

You can check for yourself here to see that China and Hong Kong are conveniently missing. We do see blocking from Anthropic and Gemini as well in some regions

Also even though Vietnam and the Philippines are technically supported we do see blocking from some IP addresses in those regions too","comments":[{"id":48293998,"user":"ericmay","time":1779888357,"time_ago":"9 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

I see - I was just curious. Does China permit citizens from accessing American AI models if they were permitted by the American companies?","comments":[{"id":48294174,"user":"weird-eye-issue","time":1779889056,"time_ago":"9 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Well I can tell you lots of them access them no matter what, our service provides a proxy for them if a request gets blocked and lots of AI providers do the same since they access the APIs through a central server without passing along the actual users IP address","comments":[{"id":48294901,"user":"ericmay","time":1779891961,"time_ago":"9 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Understood, I was just curious if the CCP blocks Chinese citizens even if they were permitted by the US. It looks quite a bit like the general economic policy of China - block foreign companies and artificially drive pricing down for your products globally. I have yet to see evidence to the contrary but was just wondering","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":6,"url":"item?id=48294901"}],"comments_count":1,"level":5,"url":"item?id=48294174"},{"id":48317790,"user":"linzhangrun","time":1780017474,"time_ago":"7 days ago","type":"comment","content":"

Absolutely not, OpenAI is not an organization they can "control."","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":5,"url":"item?id=48317790"}],"comments_count":3,"level":4,"url":"item?id=48293998"}],"comments_count":4,"level":3,"url":"item?id=48293436"}],"comments_count":5,"level":2,"url":"item?id=48293354"}],"comments_count":6,"level":1,"url":"item?id=48289443"}],"comments_count":7,"level":0,"url":"item?id=48289242"}],"comments_count":8,"url":"item?id=48289009"}

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