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You also have to count the cost of having to verify your identity to use the API

• jjani 1y ago
  It's only a video face scan and your legal ID to SamA, what could possibly go wrong
  • SequoiaHope 1y ago
    Oh they haven’t integrated the retinal scan tech yet eh?
  • electric_muse 1y ago
    Wait, is this real?
    • ryanscio 1y ago
      Yes, [1] though a bit vague given "Some organizations may already have access to these models and capabilities without having to go through the Verification process." I never verified but have access to all models including image gen, for example. [1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10910291-api-organization-verification https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10910291-api-organizatio... [2] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10362446-api-reasoning-model-availability-by-usage-tier https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10362446-api-reasoning-m...
  • AyyEye 1y ago
    Let's not forget that SamA's other business venture is creating the World's largest biometric database. So it's all for sale the moment the VC money stops keeping that unprofitable company with overpaid engineers afloat.
• Topfi 1y ago
  OpenRouter (and potentially Azure in the near future) are options if verifying for enterprise API use is too hard to stomach.
  • rgbrenner 1y ago
    openrouter requires an openai api key.
    • Topfi 1y ago
      Where did you get that from? I am currently using GPT-5 via OpenRouter and never added an OpenAI key to my account there. Same for any previous OpenAI model. BYOK is an option, not a necessity.
      • joshmlewis 1y ago
        You had to use your own key for o3 at least. > Note that BYOK is required for this model. Set up here: https://openrouter.ai/settings/integrations https://openrouter.ai/settings/integrations https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models
        • Topfi 1y ago
          > {"id":"openai/gpt-5-chat","canonical_slug":"openai/gpt-5-chat-2025-08-07","hugging_face_id":"","name":"OpenAI: GPT-5 Chat","created":1754587837,"description":"GPT-5 Chat is designed for advanced, natural, multimodal, and context-aware conversations for enterprise applications.","context_length":400000,"architecture":{"modality":"text+image->text","input_modalities":["file","image","text"],"output_modalities":["text"],"tokenizer":"GPT","instruct_type":null},"pricing":{"prompt":"0.00000125","completion":"0.00001","request":"0","image":"0","audio":"0","web_search":"0","internal_reasoning":"0","input_cache_read":"0.000000125"},"top_provider":{"context_length":400000,"max_completion_tokens":128000,"is_moderated":true},"per_request_limits":null,"supported_parameters":["max_tokens","response_format","seed","structured_outputs"]}, If you look at the JSON you linked, it does not enforce BYOK for openai/gpt-5-chat, nor for openai/gpt-5-mini or openai/gpt-5-nano.
          • joshmlewis 1y ago
            Did I say GPT-5? I said o3. :) That was a rebuttal to you saying you have never needed to add your key to use an OpenAI model before.
• iJohnDoe 1y ago
  To clarify, you need to verify identity to use the GPT-5 API? I understand for image generation, but why for text generation?
  • ryanmcbride 1y ago
    Because they want to contribute to the fascism of mass surveillance
• asterix_pano 1y ago
  you can also use https://nano-gpt.com/ https://nano-gpt.com/ if privacy is necessary