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I tried to create openai account, but seems e-mail is not enough for them and they require also phone number, not sure why, so I gave up, I provide my phone num
by Markoff 4y ago
I tried to create openai account, but seems e-mail is not enough for them and they require also phone number, not sure why, so I gave up, I provide my phone number only where it's essential.
- amanzi 4y agoThis might not be essential, but you're missing out on playing with some amazing technology.
- yesenadam 4y agoThey send an SMS code to sign up with.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoThat sounds like a mechanism for verifying the number, not a reason.
- maxbond 4y agoCharitably, so that it's easier to ban people who turn out to be spammers, and more expensive for them to make another account.
- charcircuit 4y ago>not sure why It is to reduce abuse of their API because these requests are very expensive to serve as it requires 100s of gigabytes of VRAM to serve a request, requests take a few seconds at a time, and they are handling a ton of free requests. If you were paying for their API you could be paying up to about $0.10 per text generation.
- Markoff 4y agoI wish HN would be showing who downvotes the post, I am more and more experiecing brigading even on completely innocent posts like sharing my experience with account registration.