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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
by HarHarVeryFunny 3mo 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.
- cvakiitho 3mo agoThink about it for 2 seconds.
- HarHarVeryFunny 3mo agoThere's many obvious excuses ... Are you claiming a necessity ?
- Philpax 3mo agoFree use without registration -> free to anyone and anything -> easy to abuse at scale, with no way to restrict use.
- nicce 3mo agoYou 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.
- xaqfox 3mo agoResidential proxies are too prevalent for IP address limits to work effectively.
- HarHarVeryFunny 3mo agoYou can use cookies to track usage history
- TOMDM 3mo agoI can delete cookies to obscure usage history
- HarHarVeryFunny 3mo agoYou can combine it with user PC fingerprinting
- dgellow 3mo agoYou can also just ask for a login…
- HarHarVeryFunny 3mo agoYou could also make the wannabe user buy a $500 retinal scanner and use biometric ID ...
- nicce 3mo agoIs there some public research that how often, for example, people download malware that allows this?