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Why does OpenAI require me to verify my "organization" (which requires my state issued ID) to use o3?

• bearjaws 1y ago
  Prevent Deepseek R2 being trained on it
  • piskov 1y ago
    If only there were people with multiple passports or, I don’t know, Kyrgyzstan. How exactly will passport check prevent any training? At most this will block API access to your average Ivan, not a state actor
    • BeetleB 1y ago
      Yeah, I just don't see myself using o3 when I have Gemini-2.5 Pro. I don't recall if Google Cloud verified my ID in the past, though. Still, no need to let yet another organization have my data if I'm not getting something better in return.
      • jjani 1y ago
        > I don't recall if Google Cloud verified my ID in the past, though It generally does not. No idea if there are edge cases where it does, but that's definitely not the norm for the average user.
    • ivanmontillam 1y ago
      I'm an average Ivan, and I got access.
    • yyhhsj0521 1y ago
      It's most likely for regulation compliance, instead of a sincere attempt to block anyone from training on them.
      • piskov 1y ago
        But web chatgpt doesn’t require identity verification so either this is a very strange regulation compliance or … Also do other guys like google or anthropic ask your passport?
• valleyer 1y ago
  Don't bother anyway. There are lots of cases of people trying and failing to go through the process, and there is no way to try a second time. https://community.openai.com/t/session-expired-verify-organization-verify-your-identity/1276382 https://community.openai.com/t/session-expired-verify-organi... https://community.openai.com/t/callback-from-persona-id-check-does-not-reach-openai-or-get-registered-during-verify-organization-flow/1246441 https://community.openai.com/t/callback-from-persona-id-chec... https://community.openai.com/t/verification-issue-on-second-attempt/1231256 https://community.openai.com/t/verification-issue-on-second-... https://community.openai.com/t/verification-not-working-and-saying-session-expired/1242465 https://community.openai.com/t/verification-not-working-and-... https://community.openai.com/t/organization-verfication-failed-after-identity-verification/1240913 https://community.openai.com/t/organization-verfication-fail... https://community.openai.com/t/help-organization-could-not-be-verified/1242608 https://community.openai.com/t/help-organization-could-not-b... https://community.openai.com/t/to-verify-an-organization-account-appears-to-be-as-good-as-impossible-why-those-hoops-for-people/1236713 https://community.openai.com/t/to-verify-an-organization-acc...
  • BeetleB 1y ago
    Yikes! Indeed, I won't bother.