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Comment by ericmay

9 days ago

Blocks Chinese users or blocks VPNs? Are they the only one?

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

  • I see - I was just curious. Does China permit citizens from accessing American AI models if they were permitted by the American companies?

    • 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

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