Comment by HarHarVeryFunny
5 hours ago
Why do most LLMs insist on a login, even for a free trial?
I entered a question to try it, but as soon as I hit enter it wants my phone number for a login. No thanks.
5 hours ago
Why do most LLMs insist on a login, even for a free trial?
I entered a question to try it, but as soon as I hit enter it wants my phone number for a login. No thanks.
Think about it for 2 seconds.
There's many obvious excuses ...
Are you claiming a necessity ?
Free use without registration -> free to anyone and anything -> easy to abuse at scale, with no way to restrict use.
You can limit it a lot to minimize the abuse. In free entrypoint, set token and context limits to be very small. Limit to 2 prompts per IP or something every X hour. That is already a substantial limit where bypassing might not provide much benefits.
Residential proxies are too prevalent for IP address limits to work effectively.
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